At roughly 43 metres across, it is a solidly proportioned example of a rath, the Irish term for a roughly circular enclosure defined by an earthen bank and, in many cases, a surrounding ditch. Here, that bank still stands to around 1.75 metres in height, and a shallow external fosse, the ditch dug to provide material for the bank and to reinforce the boundary, runs around it. These features, commonplace enough across the Irish countryside, nevertheless speak to a settled farming community of the early medieval period, probably somewhere between the sixth and tenth centuries, using the land much as it is used today.

The details preserved at this site are precise enough to suggest it survives in reasonable condition. There is a gap in the bank to the east-south-east and a more formal entrance to the east-north-east, where a line of stones along the northern side marks out the threshold. That kind of deliberate stonework at an entrance is a relatively modest but telling feature, an indication that this was not simply a casual enclosure but a considered piece of construction. More intriguing still is the possibility of a souterrain in the interior. A souterrain is an underground stone-lined passage or chamber, typically associated with ringforts and used variously for storage, refuge, or both. Whether this particular example has been excavated or examined in detail is not recorded here, but its possible presence adds another layer to what is already a well-defined site.