A circular area of ground, roughly 22 metres across, sits slightly elevated within an earthen bank, and the whole thing tilts with the natural slope of the hill in a way that makes the enclosure feel less like a construction and more like a feature the landscape grew around. This is a rath, the most common type of early medieval settlement in Ireland, typically a circular enclosure defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches, used as a farmstead or homestead by a family of some local standing. Thousands survive across the country, but each one carries its own particular relationship with the ground it occupies.

The bank here is modest but readable. It runs between roughly 2.8 and 3 metres wide, and because the site straddles a natural slope, the external face of the bank at the northeast rises to about 1.2 metres, considerably more pronounced than at the southwest, where it stands at around 0.6 metres. This asymmetry is not the result of uneven construction; it is the slope doing the work, making the northeastern side appear more defensively imposing simply by virtue of the fall of the land. A field boundary cutting from the east-northeast to the south has eaten into the bank along that arc, truncating it and leaving the circuit incomplete. There is also a break, about 2 metres wide, in the bank at the south, though this does not appear to be the original entrance. Where exactly early inhabitants passed in and out is no longer clear.