What appears at first to be a simple raised platform in a pastoral field is in fact a rath, an enclosed farmstead of early medieval Ireland, roughly 38 metres across in both directions and defined by a stone-faced scarp still standing to about 1.8 metres in height. Outside that scarp, a fosse, essentially a defensive ditch, runs from the north-west to the east-north-east, giving the enclosure a layered boundary that was clearly maintained with some care by whoever once lived within it.

The site sits on a level stretch of ground with Lough Allua visible to the north, a position that would have offered both a degree of natural surveillance and proximity to water. Beneath the fern-covered interior, the faint corrugations of cultivation ridges still run along an east-west axis, a reminder that the enclosed space was worked land as much as a defended one. More unusual is the presence of a souterrain in the north-west quadrant of the interior. Souterrains are underground stone-lined passages or chambers associated with early medieval settlement sites, and their exact purpose remains debated, though storage and refuge are the most commonly proposed explanations. The narrow stone bank immediately outside the fosse appears on both the 1842 and 1904 Ordnance Survey six-inch maps, where it is interpreted as the remnant of a field boundary, and a stone field fence still extends at right angles from the scarp, crossing the fosse and connecting to that outer bank on the east-north-east side. The effect is of a landscape that kept building on itself across centuries, each generation leaving its own layer of enclosure and division on top of what came before.