Spread across roughly 56 metres north to south and 54 metres east to west, the enclosure is large by the standards of Irish raths, the earthen-banked farmstead enclosures that dot the Irish countryside in their thousands, built predominantly during the early medieval period. Yet the bank that once defined this one has been worn to near-invisibility, and the fosse, the shallow external ditch that would originally have complemented the bank, can only be detected along the north-east to east arc of the site. A modern land drain cuts across the southern portion, pressing agricultural practicality into the same ground where someone once chose to build a home and mark out their territory.

The setting gives some sense of why the location was chosen in the first place. The site sits on a gentle south-facing slope in low, undulating pasture, the kind of terrain that offers modest elevation without exposure. Wet ground lies immediately to the south, and a bog begins just 90 metres to the east, both features that would have made the slightly raised, drier ground of the rath a sensible and defensible choice for a farming household. Inside the enclosure, faint cultivation ridges still run in a north-east to south-west direction across the level interior, a quiet trace of agricultural use that may post-date the original occupation of the site, or may reflect its long continuity as worked land. The ridges are slight enough that they could easily be missed, but they suggest that this ground has been shaped and reshaped by people across a considerable stretch of time.