What survives is an arc of earth and stone bank running from east to west, roughly 1.3 metres high in places, though broken by numerous gaps. South of the roadway it sits in open pasture on a south-westerly facing slope, its interior now so overgrown as to be difficult to read from ground level. North of the road, nothing remains visible at all.

The structure is a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, which was the most common form of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, typically dating from around the sixth to the twelfth century. These enclosures, usually circular or near-circular, were formed by one or more banks of earth or stone and served as farmsteads for single families, the bank and any associated ditch providing a degree of protection for livestock as much as for people. What makes this particular example quietly melancholy is the degree to which infrastructure has interrupted it. The roadway that now cuts through the site has removed or buried whatever once existed on the northern half, reducing a formerly complete circuit to a surviving fragment, an arc rather than a ring.