At roughly 26 metres across, it is a fairly typical example of a rath, the commonest monument type in the Irish landscape. A rath is an enclosed farmstead of the early medieval period, usually dating from somewhere between the fifth and twelfth centuries, built by a family of middling social standing as a defended homestead. What makes this one worth pausing over is the detail of its construction: the inner face of the enclosing bank, running from the south-west around to the north, is stone-faced rather than simply piled earth, suggesting a degree of structural investment that goes beyond the bare minimum.

The enclosing bank still stands to a height of 1.75 metres and is accompanied by an external fosse, a defensive ditch cut around the outside, though this has silted and settled to a depth of only 0.45 metres today. There are breaks in the bank at the south-east and to the west, which may represent original entrances or later disturbances. A note recorded by Myler in 1998 adds a further complication: a second outer bank on the south-west side, standing at approximately three feet in height. Double-banked raths are less common than their single-banked counterparts and are generally associated with higher-status occupants, so if this outer feature is original, it raises questions about who once lived here and what that hilltop position, commanding the surrounding pasture, meant to them.