The circular earthwork that once defined this site, a rath being a type of enclosed farmstead typical of early medieval Ireland, has been levelled so completely that it failed to appear on the Ordnance Survey's first detailed mapping of the area in 1838. By the time the 1916 edition was produced, it was recorded clearly enough, showing a circular enclosure with a fosse (a defensive ditch) and an external bank running from the south-west to the north-east quadrants. It also marked a souterrain in the south-west quadrant, labelled simply as "Cave". A souterrain is an underground stone-lined passage, commonly associated with ringforts and likely used for storage or refuge. Both features are now largely gone.

By 1984, when the site was first formally inspected, the levelling had already taken place. A second inspection in 1998 found the outline of a roughly circular enclosure, somewhere between thirty and thirty-five metres in diameter, still faintly legible as a slightly raised area of rough, stony ground. On the western half, even this trace merges with the natural slope of the rise and becomes difficult to distinguish. There are no upstanding bank remnants at all. The interior is scattered with heaps of field clearance stones, and the souterrain survives only as an overgrowth-covered suggestion in the south-west sector, with a short stretch of field wall cutting across the rath's south-western edge. The site sits on a rise that offers extensive views, particularly to the south-east, which would have made it a practical as well as a defensible position for whoever enclosed this ground well over a thousand years ago.