These were typically the farmsteads of farming families, defined by a circular or oval earthen bank and an outer ditch, and they number in the tens of thousands across the island. This particular example is easy to overlook, but its dimensions tell a quiet story: roughly 30 metres north to south and 25 metres east to west, enclosed by a bank some 6.2 metres wide and 0.6 metres high, with an outer fosse, or ditch, originally about 5 metres across.

The centuries have not been especially kind to the site. Along its western and north-western arc, the earthen bank has been absorbed into an existing field boundary, and a section running from the west-northwest to the southeast has been partially removed, likely as farmland was reorganised over generations. The fosse that once ran around the outside is mostly filled in, choked with field clearance debris, the accumulated stone and soil shifted off agricultural land over many years of working the surrounding fields. No trace of the original entrance survives in a recognisable form, which was once the most telling feature of a rath, often oriented to the east or south-east. The interior and surrounds are now densely overgrown with scrub, which both conceals and, in a way, preserves whatever remains beneath.