Beneath and around them, the earthworks of a rath, an early medieval ringfort typically used as a defended farmstead enclosure, have been slowly settling back into the landscape. What survives today is only an arc, running from the south-west to the north-west, of what was once a roughly circular enclosure about 36 metres across. The inner bank, where it remains, stands about a metre high. Between the two original earthen banks there would have been a fosse, a ditch dug to heighten the defensive effect of the raised ground on either side.

By 1936, when Ordnance Survey cartographers were updating their six-inch maps, the enclosure was already recorded as incomplete, marked with hachures to indicate a partial rather than a whole form. The site sits within the grounds of Glenview Estate, incorporated into what was once part of its lawn. That transition from functioning enclosure to ornamental parkland is a familiar trajectory for many Irish ringforts, which were often left in place on landed estates as curiosities or simply because levelling them was more trouble than it was worth. The planting of conifers across the site has since altered it further, shading out ground vegetation and obscuring the relationship between the surviving bank and whatever might remain beneath the soil.