The structure is a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, which was a type of enclosed farmstead used across early medieval Ireland, typically by a single family or small community. What makes this one quietly interesting is the degree to which it has been absorbed into the working landscape around it, its bank repurposed, its southern edge cut into by a house and farm buildings, yet the essential shape of it still legible in the ground.

The enclosure measures roughly thirty metres in diameter, a modest but not unusual size for a rath of this kind. Its boundary is an earthen bank faced with stone, standing about 1.8 metres high along the stretch from west to east. The interior has been deliberately raised on the southern side, a practical response to the southwest-facing slope on which it sits, levelling the ground within the enclosure to create a more usable surface. There is a gap of around 5.5 metres to the north-northwest, which likely represents the original entrance, though centuries of use and modification make it difficult to be certain. The incorporation of the bank into the surrounding field fence system is a common fate for ringforts across Ireland; farmers found a ready-made boundary and kept it, which has, in many cases, inadvertently preserved earthworks that might otherwise have been cleared away entirely.