A rath, as this type is known, is an earthen ringfort, typically constructed as a farmstead enclosure during the period roughly spanning the fifth to twelfth centuries. Farmers would have lived within the enclosed space, using the surrounding bank and ditch as a boundary against livestock straying and as a modest defensive perimeter. This particular example sits on a south-facing slope, which would have made practical sense for anyone seeking shelter from prevailing winds and a degree of passive warmth.

The site was recorded by Denis Power and uploaded to the national record in August 2011. Its dimensions are modest but legible: the enclosed area measures approximately 19 metres north to south and 19.3 metres east to west, making it a near-perfect circle. The earthen bank that defines it survives best along the western to north-eastern arc, where the interior height reaches around 0.4 metres and the exterior face rises to about a metre. Elsewhere, cattle grazing in the surrounding pasture have worn the bank down considerably. Outside the bank runs a fosse, the shallow external ditch that would originally have reinforced the enclosure, now measuring roughly a metre wide and less than half a metre deep at its shallowest point along the southern arc. Bushes and small trees have colonised both the bank and the fosse over time, giving the structure a slightly dishevelled, overgrown outline.

The interior slopes downward toward the south and has become marshy, with rushes covering much of the ground, which makes walking across it uncomfortable in wet seasons. Anyone approaching in autumn or winter should expect soft, waterlogged ground underfoot. The most coherent section of the bank, running from the west around to the northeast, is the best place to read the original form of the structure, though even there the profile is gentle rather than dramatic. The surrounding pasture is working farmland, so any visit would require the landowner's permission. The encroaching vegetation, while obscuring some detail, does at least help to mark the site's outline from a short distance away, particularly in late winter when the trees are bare.