It is a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, which is to say an enclosed farmstead of early medieval Ireland, typically defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches and used as a defended homestead rather than a military fortification. What makes this particular example quietly arresting is how completely the landscape has absorbed it. The enclosing bank is largely swallowed by dense overgrowth, the external fosse, a shallow surrounding ditch, has silted and softened to a depth of only around 0.4 metres, and a mature deciduous tree now grows at the centre of an interior otherwise thick with nettles.

The site was recorded and compiled by Denis Power, with the record uploaded in August 2011, and aerial photographs taken by the Archaeological Survey of Ireland in March 2006 provide the clearest overview of its plan. The rath measures approximately 24 metres north to south, a modest but complete circuit. The earthen bank varies in how it presents itself depending on which side you approach: on the east-to-west arc it stands roughly 0.9 metres internally and 1.45 metres externally, while the west-to-east arc is defined instead by a scarped edge, a deliberately cut or shaped slope, around 1.45 metres high and nearly seven metres wide. The full circuit retains its external fosse, though eroded, and just outside the ditch on the south-east to north-east side there is a much-worn field boundary, the kind of detail that suggests this corner of the townland has been farmed in some form for a very long time.

Access is complicated by the avenue running immediately outside the north-east to south-east section of the fosse, leading to a dwelling to the north, so any visit would require awareness of private land and courteous enquiry beforehand. The interior sits slightly raised above the surrounding pasture, sloping gently inward toward the central tree, and the nettles that cover much of it are a reasonable indication of disturbed or enriched ground, often found where people and animals once concentrated over centuries. The overgrowth that obscures the bank makes the full circuit difficult to read at ground level, and early spring, before the vegetation fully thickens, is likely the most informative time to observe the earthworks.