What distinguishes this one is not grandeur but survival: despite encroachment, enough of its original architecture remains to read the logic of the place clearly.

The rath is subcircular in plan, measuring roughly 35 metres east to west and 33 metres north to south. It was defined by two concentric earthen banks with an intervening fosse, the fosse being the ditch dug between the banks, the upcast soil from which typically helped build the ramparts on either side. Double-banked examples like this one were generally associated with persons of some social standing in early Irish society, the extra ring of defence or display setting a household apart from the simpler single-bank enclosures that were far more common across the landscape. The inner bank here survives along the southern and western arc, from the south-south-east around through west to north-west, and the fosse and outer bank can still be traced on the southern and western sides. The northern portion is where the damage is most evident: quarrying has eaten into the enclosing elements from the north-west around through north to north-east, removing sections that would otherwise have completed the circuit.