The earthwork sits in pasture on gently undulating ground in Kilcurly, in the old barony of Kenry, and measures roughly 23 metres north to south and 23.5 metres east to west, making it a modest but reasonably complete example of its type.

A rath, to use the Irish term, is a ringfort: a roughly circular enclosure defined by an earthen bank and, typically, an outer ditch, used as a defended farmstead during the early medieval period, broadly from around the fifth to the twelfth century. Tens of thousands of them survive across Ireland in various states of preservation, though many have been levelled by ploughing over the past two centuries. This one in Kilcurly retains its enclosing earthen bank along the arc from north-north-east to south-east, where the interior stands about half a metre above the surrounding ground and the exterior face rises around a quarter of a metre. Along the south-east to north-north-east arc, the enclosure is instead defined by a scarped edge, essentially a cut or shaped slope in the ground rather than a built-up bank, reaching 0.7 metres in height and stretching 7.7 metres in width. That scarp is best preserved along the west-to-east section and becomes very faint as it curves around towards the south-west. The interior of the enclosure dips slightly downward towards the centre, a common result of the gradual settling of disturbed ground over many centuries. The site was compiled by Denis Power and uploaded to the record in August 2011.

The site sits within working farmland and is not formally managed as a visitor attraction, so access depends on the good will of the landowner and the lie of the land. The earthworks are subtle, and someone walking through without prior knowledge might pass over them entirely. The best conditions for reading the topography are in low-angled winter light, when shadows pick out even slight changes in ground level far more clearly than they would in summer. If you do approach the enclosure, the western arc offers the most coherent read of the scarped edge, while standing at the centre of the interior gives a quiet sense of how slightly but perceptibly the ground falls away around you, an odd and unexpectedly satisfying detail for something that has been a sheep pasture for a very long time.