The site is a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, a roughly circular earthwork that would once have enclosed a farmstead and its associated buildings. This particular example measures approximately 27 metres east to west and 22 metres north to south, its interior raised above the surrounding ground and enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone that may originally have been faced with stone on its inner side. On the western half of the site, a fosse, essentially a defensive ditch, runs around the outside of the bank, itself backed by a further outer bank nearly 1.7 metres high on its interior face. Where the natural slope of the ridge takes over to the north and east, the ditch and outer bank give way to a steep terrace-like drop, the landscape itself doing the work that earthworks do elsewhere.

The entrance survives as a gap roughly two metres wide in the inner bank at the north-east, approached by what appears to be an original sloping ramp. This kind of detail is unusual to find intact and gives a sense of how deliberately considered the layout was, with the entrance positioned to face the slope rather than the more exposed western ground. The broader landscape around the rath adds further interest. Immediately to its north-east is a small triangular enclosure of uncertain function, and an associated field system extends eastward from the main enclosure, hinting at the agricultural organisation of whoever lived here. Within a radius of roughly 200 metres, two further raths survive, one to the west and one to the east, and a possible mound barrow lies about 20 metres to the south-west. Mound barrows are burial monuments, typically prehistoric in origin, and their proximity to later settlement sites like this one is not uncommon in the Irish countryside, where different periods of human activity quietly overlap in the same patch of ground.