The feature is classified as a possible rath, a type of early medieval earthwork enclosure that would once have enclosed a farmstead or dwelling, typically bounded by an earthen bank and ditch. Here the defining element is a scarp roughly two metres high, which curves from the south-south-west around to the north before merging quietly into the natural slope of the ground. The setting adds to the sense of deliberate placement: the land falls away to the south and north-west, opening up clear views westward towards a stream valley below.

What makes this site particularly interesting is the gap between its cartographic history and its physical survival. The 1838 Ordnance Survey six-inch map, one of the earliest and most systematic surveys of the Irish countryside, recorded the feature clearly as a roughly D-shaped area, approximately twenty-five to thirty metres north to south and twenty metres east to west, with its straight eastern edge running along a field boundary. That correspondence between the earthwork and the field system is suggestive; early enclosures were frequently absorbed into later agricultural boundaries rather than erased by them. Yet the rath does not appear on subsequent map editions, meaning it quietly dropped out of the official record while remaining, in altered form, on the ground. Today a straight field fence running north-north-west to south-south-east cuts across the eastern arc of the scarp, and a rectilinear field effectively boxes in the earthwork on that side, obscuring the original shape that the earlier cartographers captured.