A shallow circular scarp, roughly 24 metres across, traces the outline of what was once a rath, the term used for an earthen-banked enclosure that served as a farmstead or small defended settlement during the early medieval period in Ireland. Most raths were built and occupied between roughly 500 and 1000 AD, and thousands of them survive across the Irish countryside in varying states of preservation. This one sits in undulating grassland in north County Galway, and its condition is poor even by the variable standards of these earthworks.

The most telling detail about this site is the damage at its north-western side, where the defining scarp has been quarried away. Quarrying of old earthworks was common practice in rural Ireland, particularly where the material, whether stone, gravel, or compacted earth, was useful for road-making, field drainage, or building. The exact date and circumstances of that quarrying here are not recorded, but the effect is visible in the broken outline that remains. The site was documented in the Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II, compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra, and Paul Gosling, published in 1999.

The scarp is subtle enough that a visitor unfamiliar with rath morphology could easily walk across the site without recognising what they were looking at. The circular form, where it survives, is the main thing to trace. The grassy, rolling character of the surrounding land means there is little else to orient against, which in its own way makes the partial outline of the enclosure quietly telling about how much of Ireland's early medieval landscape has been absorbed, altered, and gradually worn into the ground.