The structure is a rath, the most common form of ringfort in Ireland, essentially a circular domestic enclosure defined by one or more earthen banks, used from roughly the early medieval period onwards as a farmstead for a single family or small community. This particular example measures twenty-nine metres in diameter, its bank rising to about 1.2 metres and faced with stone in places, enough to give it a quiet solidity even now.

The bank is not entirely intact. There is a gap roughly two metres wide to the east-south-east, which would once have served as the entrance. By the late 1930s, a drainage system had already cut across the interior, with channels nine inches wide and twelve inches deep recorded by Hartnett in 1939, though no trace of these workings is visible on the surface today. A field boundary that once extended northward from the enclosure has since been removed, leaving the rath somewhat isolated from the agricultural geometry that once surrounded it. Small alterations like these, drainage works, boundary clearances, the gradual reshaping of farmland, are often what makes a site harder to read than its age alone would suggest.