Out in the gently undulating pastureland of County Galway, only the south-western portion of this rath remains legible in the landscape, the rest having been absorbed, obscured, or simply worn away over the centuries. A rath is an early medieval enclosed farmstead, typically circular, defined by one or more earthen banks and accompanying ditches. Here, that ditch, known as a fosse, still traces part of the original circuit, and there are faint indications of a possible outer bank at the south-west, which would once have given the enclosure an additional layer of definition and, perhaps, a degree of social prestige.

The monument has not been erased so much as interrupted. A field boundary, one of those workaday lines that farmers have drawn and redrawn across the Irish countryside for generations, cuts through the site at both the north-west and south-east, effectively bisecting it. To the north-east of that boundary, the enclosing elements leave no visible surface trace at all. It is a situation that archaeologists encounter often enough across Ireland, where the practical demands of agriculture have gradually overtaken earthworks that were already centuries old when the first field walls went up. The surviving south-western arc, with its bank and fosse still readable underfoot, represents the more sheltered or less disturbed portion of what was once a complete circular enclosure.