What makes it quietly arresting is not grandeur but survival, partial and uneven as that survival is. Modern field boundaries slice through the monument at three separate points, and to the south-west the earthwork has been lost entirely to the ground surface. What remains is a rath, the commonest type of early medieval enclosure in Ireland, typically consisting of one or more raised banks with a ditch, known as a fosse, cut between them. This one is defined by two such banks and an intervening fosse, though only sections of each are now legible.

The inner bank can be traced from the north-north-west around through north to south-east, giving a reasonable impression of the original circuit on that arc. The fosse and outer bank, however, survive only along a short stretch from south-east to south-south-east, where the land apparently offered them some protection from the centuries of agricultural reshaping that erased the rest. At the east-south-east, field-clearance rubble has been piled against the inner bank, a reminder that the farmers who worked this ground regarded the old earthwork less as an antiquity than as a convenient edge against which to heap stones turned up by the plough. McCaffrey noted the site in 1952, cataloguing it as number nine in a local survey, and that record remains one of the few formal references to it.