A rath, the most common form of ringfort in Ireland, was a roughly circular enclosure, usually of earth, that sheltered a farmstead and its inhabitants during the early medieval period. This particular example is subcircular in plan, measuring approximately 77 metres on its north-east to south-west axis and 68 metres from north-west to south-east, making it a reasonably substantial enclosure by Irish standards.

What makes the site unusual is not what has survived but what has only just survived. The defining elements of a rath, a raised bank and an outer fosse, the ditch dug to create the bank's material, are both present but in very poor condition. The bank is most legible on its eastern to south-south-eastern arc, where the curve of the original enclosure can still be traced. From the north-north-west around to the north-east, the bank has been replaced by a natural-looking scarp, suggesting the earthwork was robbed or simply eroded in that quarter. Field walls, probably constructed over several centuries as the surrounding land was improved and divided, have been laid directly across the bank, blurring its profile further. The fosse survives in a broken arc from east, through south, to north-north-west. Gaps in the circuit at the east and south-south-west look recent in origin, likely the result of farm access rather than any original entrance arrangement.