Positioned on a rise at the south-western boundary of the townland of Carrowreagh, it commands wide views, particularly to the west, which may well have been part of its original appeal to whoever chose this ground.

The rath measures just over thirty-one metres north to south and roughly twenty-eight metres east to west, its perimeter once defined by a substantial bank. That bank has been worn down to a scarp, a slope of eroded earthwork, still reaching nearly two metres in height along the northern arc and around one and a half metres at the south-south-east. A slightly raised stony rim lines the interior edge in places. Centuries of agricultural use have left their mark: field clearance boulders have been pushed against the scarp at the south-east, and along the southern to north-western stretch, the scarp has been either cut through or absorbed into a later field wall, which follows the curve of the rath closely enough to suggest that farmers recognised the line of it even as they dismantled it. A ragged gap about three and a half metres wide on the eastern side, sloping down towards the exterior, may preserve the position of the original entrance. Inside, the ground is grass-covered and slopes gently downward from north to south, with a slight hollow, around four metres across, sitting against the inner edge of the scarp to the north. What is particularly striking about the location is not this rath in isolation but the density of similar monuments nearby: another rath lies 140 metres to the west, a second 350 metres to the north-west, and a further enclosure 150 metres to the south-south-east, suggesting a landscape that was once considerably more populated and organised than its quiet pastoral surface now implies.