The surrounding fields have been taken over by forestry plantations, which makes the open ground of the rath itself feel curiously isolated, as though preserved by accident rather than intention. A rath, or ringfort, is a type of enclosed farmstead built predominantly during the early medieval period in Ireland, typically consisting of a raised interior area surrounded by one or more earthen banks and ditches. This example, measuring roughly 36 metres east to west and 30 metres north to south, follows that pattern, though centuries of agricultural activity have left their mark on it in ways that are themselves worth reading.

The structure has two concentric elements: an inner earthen bank and an outer one, separated by a fosse, which is simply the ditch dug between them. The inner bank is noticeably more eroded on the inside than the outside, its external scarp still rising to nearly three metres in places while the interior edge has worn almost flush with the ground. The outer bank has fared worse in places; the western and northern sections have been removed entirely, and a stretch running from the east-northeast to the southeast has been replaced by a later field fence, the kind of quiet erasure that happened to countless such monuments as farming patterns changed over the centuries. The original entrance survives at the east, a gap just over three metres wide that opens onto a causeway crossing the fosse, though the corresponding gap in the outer bank is now blocked by that same later fencing. Inside the northern half of the enclosure there is a shallow surface depression and a narrow gully running several metres toward the centre, likely the result of some past disturbance to the ground, though its precise cause is unknown.

The interior ground rises gently toward the centre, giving the whole enclosure a slightly domed profile when viewed from outside. The perimeter is fringed with hawthorn and blackthorn, the scrub thickest along the outer bank to the south, which helps pick out the circuit of the monument even where the earthworks themselves have been reduced. The knoll position means that, despite the forestry closing in on the surrounding fields, the view from within the rath still opens out over bog and pasture in several directions.