The site is a rath, a type of ringfort consisting of a roughly circular earthen bank and ditch that would have enclosed a household, its outbuildings, and livestock. Thousands of these survive across Ireland in varying states of preservation, but this one has fared more quietly than most, its outline reduced to little more than a low rise in the grass.

The most precise record of the site comes from a 1938 Ordnance Survey six-inch map, on which it was plotted as a penannular broken line, meaning an arc that is almost but not quite complete, a gap suggesting the original entrance or simply the point where the earthwork has eroded most thoroughly. The recorded diameter of approximately 28 metres places it at the smaller end of the rath spectrum, consistent with a single-family enclosure rather than a high-status or multivallate site. Without excavation, it is impossible to say when exactly it was constructed, though raths in Ireland are generally associated with the period between roughly the sixth and twelfth centuries.