The truncation is a small, mundane kind of violence, the sort that happened quietly across the Irish countryside whenever a farmer needed access to a bridge. The fort that remains is still substantial enough to read clearly in the landscape, sitting on a gentle rise above low-lying scrubby pasture roughly seventy metres from the Dealagh River.

This is a bivallate rath, meaning it was defended by two concentric circuits of earthwork rather than the single bank-and-ditch arrangement more commonly encountered. A rath, broadly speaking, was an enclosed farmstead of the early medieval period, the defended home of a farming family of some social standing, its banks as much a statement of status as a practical barrier. Here, the inner bank still stands between roughly one and nearly two metres above the surrounding ground and retains the remains of a stone wall laid along its top, now collapsed to two or three courses and visible intermittently from the east around to the south-west. The wall itself is narrow, around one and a half metres wide, and barely rises above ground level in places, but its presence suggests a more substantial structure once crowned the earthen bank beneath it. Outside the inner bank runs a round-bottomed fosse, or ditch, up to nine metres wide, and beyond that an outer bank between three and nine metres wide. To the north and north-east, the double circuit has been further worn down, surviving only as a pair of low scarps with a flat berm between them. No entrance is now visible, and the interior, sloping gently southward, is densely overgrown. The fort was recorded on both the 1840 and 1916 Ordnance Survey six-inch maps, marked with the hachure symbol that cartographers of the period used to indicate earthwork monuments, which means it was already a recognised feature of the landscape long before anyone thought to measure it closely.