This particular rath, a type of enclosed farmstead typical of early medieval Ireland, is sandwiched between two related sites: another rath lies roughly 300 metres to the north, and the enclosure known as Cahernanacree sits an equal distance to the south. Three such monuments in a tight north-to-south corridor is not an arrangement that archaeology tends to treat as coincidence.

The rath itself is oval in plan, measuring 25 metres north to south and 31 metres east to west, and it belongs to the univallate class, meaning it has a single enclosing earthen bank rather than the double or triple circuits found at higher-status sites. That bank survives to a maximum height of 1.25 metres on the downhill side, where the raised interior gives it something of a platform quality. The bank has been removed entirely in the south-south-east sector, just south of what is thought to have been the original entrance gap to the south-east, a common position for rath entrances. Abutting the inner face of the bank near that entrance is a small oval structure built in drystone, a technique using unmortared stone laid without lime or cement. It measures roughly 5.6 by 4.1 metres internally, with walls up to 2 metres wide and 0.7 metres high; squat and solid, it reads less as a dwelling than as an outbuilding or animal pen. Scattered stone heaps in the interior suggest further activity, though a modern field fence and drain cut across the site and complicate any reading of what remains.