What reads as a faint circular swell in the pasture is in fact a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, a type of enclosed farmstead built in their thousands across Ireland roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries. The enclosing earthen bank here is barely above knee height on the inside, though it rises to just over a metre on the exterior, and the old fosse, the defensive ditch that once ran around the outside, has long since silted and grassed over. Its presence is only betrayed today by differential vegetation, a subtler clue than stone or timber, but a readable one.

The site measures roughly 35.5 metres north to south and 35 metres east to west, making it a fairly typical example in scale. Two gaps break the enclosing bank, one to the north at just under two and a half metres wide, the other to the northwest at a narrower 1.2 metres, and one of these likely marks the original entrance. Inside, the ground is saucer-shaped rather than flat, a characteristic feature that results from centuries of the enclosing bank slumping gently inward. Off-centre to the east, there is a possible souterrain, an underground stone-lined passage or chamber of the kind that served early Irish farmsteads as storage space or, in times of threat, a place of concealment. A field boundary runs along the eastern edge of the enclosure, a modern intrusion that has skirted rather than cut through the site, leaving the core of the monument largely intact.