Measuring roughly 38 metres east to west and 35 metres north to south, it is a rath, the most common type of early medieval enclosure in Ireland, typically built as a defended farmstead between roughly the fifth and twelfth centuries. What defines it is a raised bank with an external fosse, a drainage or defensive ditch encircling the perimeter; here, the fosse no longer reads as a clear depression but betrays itself through a band of darker vegetation, where moisture collects in the old channel and feeds a slightly different growth of grass.

The earthwork sits in level grassland and survives in fair condition, though the bank has suffered a number of breaches that appear to be the work of modern rather than medieval disturbance, likely the result of agricultural activity over the centuries. That kind of incremental damage is common across Ireland's ringfort landscape, where thousands of similar enclosures have been quietly reduced or removed by ploughing, drainage, and field clearance. The fact that this one remains legible at all, its outline still readable and its fosse still hinting at its presence through the vegetation, puts it in better shape than many of its counterparts.