Set in gently undulating grassland in Balling, County Galway, this circular rath, roughly 38 metres in diameter, has been so thoroughly worn down by time and agriculture that its outline must be read more than seen. A rath is an Early Medieval ringfort, typically a raised circular enclosure defined by earthen banks and a surrounding ditch, used as a farmstead and homestead by a single family or extended household. Here, that enclosure survives mainly as a degraded scarp, a low eroded slope where the bank once stood, and a fosse, the defensive ditch, that traces only part of the original circuit, running from the north-west to the north-east and again from the south-east to the south-west.

The monument has been further complicated by later land use. Field boundaries cut across it at the north-east, south-east, north-north-west, and south-west, slicing through what would once have been a continuous enclosure. More intriguing is a curving field boundary that runs just outside the surviving fosse from the north-north-west to the north-north-east and from the south-east to the south-west. This alignment raises the possibility that it overlies an outer bank, which would suggest the rath originally had more than one enclosing element, a configuration sometimes associated with higher-status settlement in Early Medieval Ireland. Whether that outer feature ever existed here cannot be confirmed from the surface evidence alone, but its ghost in the landscape is suggestive.