Sitting in marshy pasture near the top of a gentle south-facing rise in County Clare, this early medieval ringfort, or rath, commands wide views to the south and east, yet it has been quietly losing ground on its western side to conifer plantations for some time. A rath is a roughly circular enclosure, typically built during the early medieval period as a defended farmstead, defined by earthen banks, ditches, and sometimes an outer bank. This one is subcircular in plan, measuring around 36.5 metres north to south and 40.5 metres east to west, and it preserves a surprisingly complete set of earthworks for a site in agricultural land.

The rath is defined by a scarp running from north to south, traces of an inner bank on the western side, a flat-based fosse, which is a broad defensive ditch, and an outer bank beyond that. The fosse runs between four and five metres wide, and both the inner and outer banks, though modest in surviving height, remain measurable features in the landscape rather than vague shadows in the ground. At the east-north-east, a narrow causeway just under two metres wide crosses the fosse, marking what would have been the original entrance. The interior, roughly 24.5 by 24 metres, is slightly dished, meaning the ground surface sags inward a little, a common result of centuries of settlement and organic decay within a confined enclosure. The site was recorded on the Ordnance Survey six-inch maps of both 1840 and 1916, indicated by hachuring, a cartographic convention used to show earthwork banks and scarps. On the southern and western sides, later earthen field boundaries have been laid directly over the outer bank of the rath, blurring its edge and layering one era of land use quietly on top of another.