What was once a defined enclosure, measuring around 44 metres east to west and 37 metres north to south, has been slowly absorbed by the landscape around it. Trees and bushes crowd the inner scarp and what remains of the outer bank, and along the eastern and southern arc, the outer bank has vanished entirely from the surface. A modern road presses in at the eastern edge, nudging up against the surviving earthworks as though indifferent to what they represent.

This is a rath, a type of enclosed farmstead that was the most common form of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, typically dating from roughly the sixth to the twelfth century. Raths were built by farming families of some social standing, their circular or oval banks and ditches defining a domestic space that might have contained a house, outbuildings, and perhaps livestock pens. This particular example follows the standard structural logic: an inner scarp, a fosse (a drainage or defensive ditch running between the scarp and the outer bank), and the outer bank itself. The irregularity of its shape and the degree of its deterioration place it among the more eroded survivors of a monument type that was once numbering in the tens of thousands across the island. Within the southern half of the interior, a collapsed souterrain or subsurface feature has also been recorded, suggesting the site was once more complex than its present surface appearance implies.