Set on a slight rise above flat, marshy grassland, the circular earthwork has lost almost half of its defining bank, with no visible surface trace surviving on its northern and eastern sides. What survives is a ghost of a boundary rather than a barrier, and yet the site holds enough geometry to read clearly against the low, wet ground around it.

The monument is a rath, the most common type of early medieval enclosure in Ireland, typically a circular area defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches, used as a farmstead or high-status residence from roughly the fifth to the twelfth centuries. This example measures approximately 31 metres in diameter, modest by any standard. More unusual is what lies within. Beneath the grass inside the enclosure is the outline of a rectangular structure, oriented east to west, measuring around 8 metres long and 7.3 metres wide. Rectangular buildings within raths are not unheard of, but they complicate the usual picture of these sites as purely circular in their organisation. Whether this structure is contemporary with the enclosing bank or represents a later phase of use is not something the surface evidence alone can settle.