What survives is a rath, the earthen equivalent of a ringfort, a type of enclosed farmstead once so common across Ireland that thousands remain scattered through the countryside. This one measures approximately 36.5 metres north to south and 37.5 metres east to west, making it a fairly typical example in scale, though its earthen bank, where it survives, stands only around 0.4 metres high. Along the south-eastern to south-western arc, even that modest remnant has been levelled, most likely by generations of agricultural work.

What makes this particular site quietly curious is the pair of linear earthen banks that survive within the enclosure itself. One runs roughly north to south at about 16.5 metres in length, the other east to west at around 11.6 metres. Interior banks of this kind are not the standard feature of a simple rath, which would typically enclose a single domestic space, and their presence raises questions about how the interior was organised or subdivided. The surrounding area, taking in the parishes near Ballinrobe and the shores of Lough Mask and Lough Carra, is known to contain a dense concentration of early medieval and prehistoric remains, suggesting this was a settled and worked landscape for a very long time.