The enclosure is substantial: an interior diameter of around 48 metres, ringed by a bank roughly four metres wide and one and a half metres high, with traces of an older stone revetment still visible along its face. That combination of earthwork and stonework is characteristic of a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, which was the most common form of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, typically home to a farming family of some social standing. What makes this particular example quietly arresting is the local tradition that somewhere within the overgrown interior lies a souterrain, an underground passage or chamber constructed from stone, usually associated with storage, refuge, or both.

The site was already well established enough to be recorded on the first edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map, published in 1839, where it appears as an irregular curvilinear area with trees inside. By the time the 1900 to 1901 revision was made, little had changed in its outward appearance. That continuity across more than sixty years of mapping suggests the enclosure had already passed out of active agricultural use and into the slower custody of vegetation long before either survey was conducted. The maximum diameter including the bank reaches around 60 metres, giving a sense of how much ground the monument once commanded, even if the interior is now difficult to read beneath the growth.