It does not announce itself to anyone walking the land; there is no earthwork to stub a toe on, no obvious depression to catch the eye. What remains is a cropmark, the kind of ghostly outline that shows up in aerial photographs when soil disturbance from ancient digging causes crops above it to grow at a slightly different rate, revealing the buried past in greens and yellows visible only from above.

The enclosure is roughly circular, around sixty metres in diameter on its northeast to southwest axis, and sits on a gentle southwest-facing slope at a slight rise in the ground, the kind of modest elevation that early medieval farmers consistently favoured for a rath. A rath, or ringfort, was the standard farmstead of early medieval Ireland, typically a circular area enclosed by one or more earthen banks and ditches to protect a family's home and livestock. Here the defining feature is a fosse, a ditch, traceable on aerial photographs from the southwest around through the north-northeast and again from the southeast southward. For the stretches in between, the enclosure boundary appears to have merged with, or been absorbed into, later field boundaries, which is not unusual; farmers in subsequent centuries often found it practical to incorporate existing earthworks into their own land divisions rather than clear them away entirely. The result is a monument that survives in fragments, legible only when seen from a distance and at the right time of year.