These raths, as they are commonly known, were typically circular or oval earthwork enclosures built to protect a family, their livestock, and their home. This particular example is a modest one, measuring roughly 25 metres along its north-east to south-west axis and about 15 metres across, placing it firmly at the smaller end of the scale.

By the time the Ordnance Survey revised its six-inch map series in 1913, the site was already being recorded rather than actively used, its oval shape plotted as a feature of the landscape rather than a functioning enclosure. What the mapmakers captured has since become considerably harder to read on the ground. The rath is now entirely overwhelmed by thorn bushes, dense enough to make any close inspection impossible, and modern farm sheds have been constructed immediately to the north. It is a situation common to hundreds of similar sites across Connacht, where agriculture and the slow encroachment of scrub have conspired to obscure earthworks that once organised the lives of farming families over a thousand years ago.