It sits in rough grazing land at Gurteenaduige, and what survives of it is modest: a low scarp, no more than 0.4 metres high, tracing the arc of what was once a complete enclosure roughly 22 metres across.

This is a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, which was the standard form of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, used broadly between the fifth and twelfth centuries. Thousands were built across the country, typically as enclosed farmsteads surrounded by an earthen bank and ditch, though the term covers a wide range of sizes and constructions. The one at Gurteenaduige would originally have been a roughly circular enclosure, its diameter measured at around 22 metres on a north-northwest to south-southeast axis. The bank that once defined that circle has been reduced over centuries of agriculture and weather to little more than a slight change in ground level, a scarp that hints at the original perimeter rather than asserting it. The broken, rocky character of the surrounding land gives some sense of why this particular hillside was chosen, elevated ground with natural features offering both visibility and a degree of protection.

What survives is fragmentary, and the site makes no great display of itself. But that understatedness is part of what makes it worth knowing about. Across Ireland, many ringforts have been levelled entirely by ploughing or development; the fact that even a partial scarp persists here, in hilly pasture land that has probably never seen intensive tillage, means the outline of an early medieval household boundary is still faintly legible in the ground.