The site is classed as a probable rath, a type of early medieval farmstead typically consisting of a circular earthen bank enclosing a domestic settlement. Where the bank and its interior once formed a legible ring of roughly 30 to 35 metres in diameter, what remains today is a subcircular rise of perhaps 25 to 30 metres across, its edges soft and indeterminate, blending into the surrounding field.

The enclosure was still clearly visible when the first Ordnance Survey six-inch map was produced in 1838, recorded there as a circular ringfort-like embanked enclosure. By the 1922 edition of the same map series, it appeared as a hachured circle, the cartographic shorthand for a raised or earthwork feature, suggesting the structure was already diminishing. At some point between that survey and the present, the site was levelled, most likely through agricultural activity. It sits on a low ridge running roughly north-northwest to south-southeast, with the ground falling away to the northeast and southeast, in a landscape of sharply undulating terrain. That elevated position on a ridge, modest as it is, would have been a deliberate choice for whoever enclosed the site, offering both drainage and a degree of visibility across the surrounding land.