The one recorded here is a subcircular rath, a type of ringfort typically constructed as a defended farmstead during the early medieval period, defined by an earthen bank and, where the bank has worn away, by a scarp, the sloped edge of the original earthwork. It measures approximately 49 metres north to south and 41 metres east to west, making it a reasonably substantial example of the form.

The enclosure survives in fair condition, with its bank running from the south-south-east around through south to north-west. A gap roughly four metres wide on the eastern side may represent the original entrance, which in ringforts of this kind was often oriented eastward, perhaps for practical reasons related to prevailing weather or morning light. Its neighbour, a separate ringfort catalogued under its own reference, lies close to the south-east. Paired or clustered ringforts are not unknown in the Irish landscape and may reflect family groupings, sequential occupation across generations, or simply the long agricultural attractiveness of a well-drained hillside site. The Garbally estate setting adds a layer of later history; the demesne was developed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the survival of earthworks within such designed landscapes is often a matter of chance, dependent on whether a landowner chose to level, plant, or simply leave well alone.