A rath, the most common type of Irish ringfort, was typically a circular or near-circular enclosure defined by earthen banks and a fosse (a ditch dug between the banks), used as a defended farmstead during the early medieval period. This one measures roughly 32 metres east to west and 28 metres north to south, making it a modest example of the form. What gives it a particular quality is the unevenness of its survival: different sections of the enclosure have fared very differently, and reading the site now means piecing together what remains from what is missing.

The inner bank is still traceable from the north-east around through the east to the south-west, though elsewhere the ground simply drops away in a scarp rather than rising in a proper bank. The fosse and outer bank survive only in a narrow arc from north-north-east to east-north-east, the rest having been lost over time. A possible entrance may be identified at the south-east. Quarrying has eaten into the monument from the west, accounting for some of the loss, and the site was already noted in this condition by Neary as early as 1914. The monument also sits around 180 metres north-west of a second ringfort, a reminder that these enclosures often appear in loose clusters across the Irish landscape, associated with the same farming communities spread across adjacent plots of ground.