It is the kind of place that rewards a second glance: the ground is not quite level in a way that feels deliberate, and a low earthen bank, still standing to an external height of around 1.3 metres on the northern and eastern sides, gives the enclosure its shape. The whole thing measures roughly 41.5 metres north to south and 33.7 metres east to west, making it a modestly sized example of a monument type that once numbered in the tens of thousands across the island.

By 1842, when Ordnance Survey cartographers were working their way through Cork for the first six-inch mapping of Ireland, the enclosure was already old enough to warrant marking as a hachured circle on the finished sheet, its circular outline still legible in the landscape. The western side of the rath tells a quieter story of continuity: a later field boundary runs along that edge and appears to respect the line of the original bank, possibly even incorporating it, which is not unusual in areas where farmers found it more practical to reuse ancient earthworks than to remove them. Less fortunate is the southern arc, where quarrying has eaten roughly eight metres into the interior, removing a portion of whatever deposits or features might have survived there. Inside the enclosure, a shallow depression near the western field boundary hints at something below the surface. A possible souterrain, an underground stone-lined passage typically used for storage or refuge, has been identified in the interior, though its condition and extent remain uncertain.