A rath, as these earthwork enclosures are generally known, was typically a farmstead of the early medieval period, its raised bank and surrounding ditch marking out a protected space for a family and their livestock. This particular example has weathered badly over the centuries, its outline now subcircular rather than the neat circle that survives at better-preserved sites, measuring roughly 34.6 metres across from west-northwest to east-southeast and 24.8 metres from north-northeast to south-southwest.

What survives is a patchwork of earthwork forms. Along some sections, a proper raised bank is still visible, running from the north-northeast around to the east, and again from the south-southeast sweeping westward and back up to the north-northwest. Where the bank has gone, a scarp, essentially a natural or shaped slope in the ground surface, now does the work of defining the enclosure's edge. Faint traces of an external fosse, the shallow ditch that once reinforced the boundary, can still be made out along the southern and northwestern arc. The most curious detail sits atop the southern bank: a small secondary enclosure, just 3.8 metres in diameter, defined by a low stony bank. Its purpose is not recorded, though small annexes of this kind occasionally appear at rath sites, sometimes interpreted as animal pens or storage areas, though nothing definitive can be said here.