A rath is a roughly circular enclosure, typically dating from the early medieval period, defined by an earthen bank and an outer ditch, and used as a farmstead or place of status by a family or small community. This particular example is slightly oval rather than perfectly round, measuring just under fifty metres north to south and nearly fifty-eight metres east to west, which gives it a footprint comfortably larger than a modern playing pitch.

The site did not escape the mid-twentieth century unscathed. During land clearance work in the 1950s, drains were cut around the exterior, a process that probably involved re-cutting the original fosse, the outer ditch that once helped define and defend the enclosure. Despite this intervention, the structure remains largely intact. The bank, which is round-topped and between roughly two and two and a half metres wide, still stands to an internal height of up to half a metre in places, and reaches over a metre on its outer face in some sections. The fosse alongside it, around two metres wide and over half a metre deep, remains visible in most of the circuit, though it disappears in the east to south-east quadrant, likely where the drainage work caused the most disruption. The interior of the enclosure is relatively open, while the perimeter has been left to scrub and brambles, giving the monument the slightly unkempt outline that many such sites acquire when they sit just outside the reach of routine agricultural maintenance.