A rath is a ringfort, typically a circular enclosure of early medieval date used as a farmstead or small defended settlement, and this one is more legible than many. The raised circular area measures just over twenty metres across, enclosed by a wide, earthen bank of stone and earth that retains traces of stone facing on both its inner and outer sides. There is no fosse, the defensive ditch that commonly accompanies such banks, which gives the site an unusually open, unguarded quality from a distance.

What sharpens the interest is what lies inside. At the ESE of the bank there is a probable souterrain, an underground passage or chamber of the kind commonly associated with Irish ringforts, used variously for storage, refuge, or dairy keeping. A hole in the bank nearby may be connected to this subterranean feature, hinting at a structure whose full extent remains unclear. The entrance to the enclosure, a partially stone-lined gap roughly 1.9 metres wide, sits to the east and is considered likely to be the original, giving a sense of how people would have passed in and out of this space over a thousand or more years ago. The site sits on a gentle north-facing slope, with wide views out over the Atlantic in most directions, though higher ground to the south and southeast closes off the prospect there.