A rath, as these early medieval enclosures are known, was typically a circular earthwork defined by one or more banks and ditches, used as a farmstead or defended homestead during the first millennium AD. This particular example measures roughly thirty metres across, but its defining bank has been so reduced over time that no surface trace of it survives along the northern and western arc. What remains is more impression than monument.

A survey by Cody in 1989 recorded one additional feature: a shallow fosse, a ditch roughly fifteen metres long, running north to south across the ridge about seven metres east of the rath itself. A fosse of this kind would ordinarily serve a clear defensive or boundary function, but here the relationship between the ditch and the enclosure could not be firmly established, though it appeared to be connected with it in some way. That ambiguity is part of what makes the site quietly interesting. The rath sits close to the western end of the ridge, a position that suggests deliberate placement, likely chosen for visibility or control of the surrounding terrain, yet the evidence for how the whole complex once functioned is fragmentary at best.