It is a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, which was a roughly circular enclosed settlement typically built during the early medieval period, between roughly the fifth and twelfth centuries. Thousands once dotted the Irish countryside, serving as farmsteads for families of some social standing, their banks and ditches marking boundaries as much social as defensive. This particular example is poorly preserved, measuring approximately 36 metres north to south and just over 30 metres east to west, its subcircular outline now defined partly by an earthen bank surviving along the southern and western arc through to the northwest, and elsewhere only by a natural-looking scarp where the ground simply drops away.

What makes the site quietly interesting is a roughly rectangular hollow in the northwest quadrant, which may indicate the former presence of a souterrain. A souterrain is an underground stone-lined passage or chamber, often associated with ringforts, and thought to have served variously as storage space, a place of refuge, or a means of escape. They are relatively common finds within raths, though identifying one from surface evidence alone is always tentative. Compounding the monument's worn condition, a field boundary cuts directly across it from northwest to northeast, the kind of incremental agricultural intrusion that has diminished so many similar sites across the west of Ireland over generations.