That absence is one of its more curious features. A rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, was typically a circular enclosure used during the early medieval period, roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries, most likely as a farmstead for a single family or small community. They are common enough across Ireland, but this one presents itself with a studied blankness: no obvious gap in the bank, no worn threshold, just a closed ring of earthwork roughly 43 metres across.

The enclosure is defined by an earthen bank that survives best at the north-west, where it reaches about seven metres wide with an internal height of one metre. Moving south-east, that bank drops away to a scarp of around 1.2 metres. On the western and north-western side there is evidence of a fosse, a defensive ditch dug around the outside of the bank, flat-bottomed and once reasonably substantial, with a base width of four metres and an internal depth of two metres. The fact that the fosse appears only on one side of the monument suggests either that the rest was never cut, or that it has since been levelled by centuries of agriculture and erosion. Approximately 65 metres to the east-south-east lies a separate moated site, a different type of enclosure altogether, typically associated with Anglo-Norman settlement from the late twelfth century onwards, which hints at a layering of occupation and land use across this small stretch of Wexford countryside over several centuries.