A rath is a ringfort, typically a circular earthen enclosure used as a farmstead during the early medieval period in Ireland, and this one was recorded on the Ordnance Survey six-inch maps as a circular enclosure roughly 34 metres in diameter. By the time anyone went to look at it properly, it was already disappearing.

When surveyors visited in April 1983, only a partial platform remained, curving from the east around through the south to the south-west. The rest had already been lost. A return visit in March 1987 found nothing at all above ground; field-reclamation works had levelled whatever earthwork had survived the intervening years. What had once been a defined circular enclosure in undulating grassland was, by the late 1980s, indistinguishable from the fields around it. The site endures now only in two forms: its outline on the old OS six-inch maps, and its ghost in aerial photography, where the 2018 Google satellite imagery captured through the OSi DigitalGlobe service shows the faint circular trace still pressed into the earth. A potentially associated field system has also been identified in the same area, suggesting the rath was once part of a wider agricultural landscape rather than an isolated feature.