What distinguishes it is partly this ambiguity, and partly the way the modern townland boundary cuts straight through it at the south and west, so that a portion of the monument has vanished entirely beneath the administrative geography of later centuries.

The site is a rath, a type of enclosed farmstead typical of early medieval Ireland, usually circular or roughly so, defined by an earthen bank, a fosse (a ditch dug to provide material for that bank), and sometimes a further outer bank beyond. Here, the inner bank can be traced from the west around to the northwest and from the east around to the south, suggesting the original circuit ran perhaps twenty-one metres across its widest axis, oriented roughly west-northwest to east-southeast. Traces of both the intervening fosse and an outer bank survive along the northern arc. The southwestern quadrant, the portion that falls beyond the townland boundary, leaves no visible surface trace at all. A gap at the southeastern side may be original, possibly the position of the entrance, though it is not possible to say so with certainty given the overall condition of the earthworks.