Forty-four metres across at its widest, it presents itself as little more than a shallow ring in the ground, the kind of subtle landscape feature that most people would walk past without a second thought. What holds the attention, once you know what you are looking at, is the combination of its modest survival and its quiet persistence across nearly two centuries of mapping.

A rath is a ringfort, the most common monument type in the Irish countryside, typically built during the early medieval period as a defended farmstead enclosure. This particular example is defined by a low earthen bank, still standing between a quarter and just over half a metre high and five to six metres wide, with traces of an outer fosse, a shallow ditch, surviving on the eastern side. A gap of two metres on the north-west side may represent the original entrance, one of two such breaks in the bank. The interior is level and offers nothing visible to the eye. What complicates the picture slightly is an overgrown stone wall running roughly west-south-west to east-north-east across the northern half of the monument, a later intrusion that cuts across the earlier earthwork. The rath appears on both the 1840 and 1916 editions of the Ordnance Survey six-inch maps, marked with hachures, the cartographic convention for showing raised earthworks, which means it was recognisable and considered worth recording through successive surveys. By 1996, the Record of Monuments and Places catalogued it more cautiously as an "Enclosure", a label that reflects uncertainty about function rather than a downgrading of its age or significance.