What makes it worth a second glance is not just its age but its dimensions and its double-bank construction. At roughly 66 metres north to south and 68 metres east to west, it is a substantial example of what archaeologists call a rath, a ringfort enclosed by earthen banks, the most common monument type surviving in the Irish landscape. Most were built during the early medieval period, roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries, and served as enclosed farmsteads for a family and their livestock.

This particular rath is defined by two concentric banks with a fosse, or ditch, running between them. The inner bank rises to about 2.8 metres on its outer face, while the outer bank reaches 1.7 metres on its inner face, giving the enclosure a pronounced sense of layered defence or, at minimum, layered social display. A causewayed entrance, where the banks and ditch are interrupted to allow passage, faces to the north-east. The site has seen some interference over the years; field clearance stones have been dumped into the fosse on the western side, and cattle bones have been recorded to the south. These small details are telling. The stones point to the ongoing pressure of agricultural land management on ancient earthworks, while the animal bones hint at the kind of domestic activity, livestock-keeping and butchery, that would once have been entirely ordinary within such an enclosure.