The site commands wide views from east-northeast to south, while a stream drains the wet basin sixty metres to the west and the ridge summit rises beyond it. The position is neither the highest point nor the most obvious one, but it is the driest, the most defensible laterally, and the most commanding in the directions that apparently mattered.

A rath is an earthen ringfort, a roughly circular enclosure defined by a bank and an outer ditch, or fosse, used throughout early medieval Ireland as a farmstead or place of habitation. This one is oval, measuring about 27.5 metres east to west and nearly 36 metres north to south, with an earthen bank that is substantially more imposing on its western side, where the external face still stands 1.5 metres high, than on the east, where it has been reduced to a modest ridge less than half a metre above the interior. The external fosse, the defensive ditch running outside the bank, survives differently around the circuit: to the northwest it appears as a faint depression barely thirty centimetres deep, while to the southwest and northwest it shows itself more clearly as a band of soft, rush-grown ground roughly two metres wide. It has disappeared entirely along the eastern and southern arc. A slump in the bank on the east may once have been the entrance, though a later field wall now crosses the rath on an east-west axis, obscuring that detail. There is also a narrow break in the bank to the north-northwest, but because no corresponding gap exists in the fosse, it is unlikely to have served as a way in.

The interior is not unmarked by later activity. A pit roughly 1.5 metres deep has been quarried into the northern half, grassed over now but clearly an intrusion into the original surface. The southern half holds a shallower, wetter depression edged by a slight scarp, rush-grown and soft underfoot. A forestry plantation has since advanced to within a metre or two of the northern part of the site, cutting off what would have been views to the north and northeast, though the rath itself sits just outside the planted ground. What remains is a grass-covered oval scattered with heather, gorse, and rushes, its western bank still holding enough height to make the original intention plain.