The raised ring measures thirty-two metres across, and what remains of its enclosing bank, now low and discontinuous, still stands up to one and a half metres on its outer face. A gap just over a metre wide in the western bank is a cattle break, a practical modern intrusion that speaks to how thoroughly these ancient boundaries have been absorbed into working farmland.

This is a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, the most common monument type in the Irish countryside. Ringforts were typically enclosed farmsteads of the early medieval period, roughly the fifth to twelfth centuries, their earthen or stone banks defining a domestic space for a family and their livestock. At Faghbane, the bank is composed of both earth and stone, with stretches of scarp, a near-vertical cut face, particularly pronounced along the southern arc. The external face on the northern side shows signs of erosion, and faint traces of a depression outside the bank may point to the former presence of a fosse, the encircling ditch that often accompanied such constructions. The interior slopes gently downward to the north, toward the Flesk River, which curves through the landscape roughly four hundred and fifty metres to the northeast. What makes this site quietly interesting beyond its own details is that it does not stand alone: a second rath lies approximately ninety metres to the west-northwest, a reminder that these enclosures were rarely isolated features but part of a broader pattern of early medieval settlement across the Irish landscape.