A rath is a roughly circular earthwork enclosure, typically dating from the early medieval period and built as a defended farmstead, its residents living within a raised bank that separated domestic life from the wider landscape. This particular example is subcircular in plan, measuring around 60.5 metres north to south and 49.7 metres on its northeast to southwest axis, which makes it a reasonably substantial example of the type.

The enclosure survives in fair condition overall, defined by an earthen bank that remains legible around most of its circuit. The exception runs from the northeast to the east-southeast, where quarrying has eaten into the monument, removing a section of the bank and leaving that arc of the perimeter open. Several other gaps, at the west-southwest, northwest, and north-northeast, appear to be of modern origin rather than original features, though their precise cause is unrecorded. It is a quietly common story in the Irish landscape: an ancient enclosure endures for over a thousand years, then loses a portion of itself in a matter of decades to industrial or agricultural activity that simply did not account for what lay in the ground.