It is still there, recorded and mapped, but the monument itself has been swallowed entirely by a dense overgrowth of trees and bushes, leaving no obvious trace of what lies beneath for anyone passing through the surrounding fields.

A rath, to use the Irish term for this type of earthwork enclosure, is a roughly circular raised platform defined by an earthen bank and an outer ditch, used as a farmstead during the early medieval period, broadly between the fifth and twelfth centuries. Thousands survive across Ireland, but this particular example near Ballyhahill is among the more obscured. It was still visible enough in 1923 to be recorded on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map as a roughly circular enclosure with a diameter of around twenty metres, positioned in the south-east corner of a field. Even then, the eastern side had already been clipped by a field boundary. The accessible north-western section of the enclosing bank reveals an external height of 1.8 metres, with a fosse, meaning the external ditch, measuring approximately 0.45 metres deep and 2.5 metres wide. These are modest but legible dimensions, enough to confirm this as a genuine early medieval earthwork rather than a natural feature. The record was compiled by Denis Power and uploaded to the national monuments database in August 2011.

Finding the site requires some patience, as the overgrowth that now covers it makes visual identification from outside the field boundary quite difficult. The north-western approach offers the best chance of detecting the surviving earthen bank, and the fosse is more perceptible at ground level than any aerial impression might suggest. The marshland character of the surrounding area means underfoot conditions can be soft, particularly after wet weather, which in this part of Limerick is not an infrequent occurrence. The site rewards careful attention rather than a casual glance; what reads from a distance as a thicket of scrub is, on closer inspection, the outline of a dwelling that once organised daily life in this corner of the county more than a thousand years ago.