The enclosure is a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, which was typically a circular raised platform enclosed by an earthen bank and ditch, used as a farmstead or defended homestead during the early medieval period. What makes this one quietly odd is the way the modern agricultural landscape has simply grown through it, trimming the western arc of the circle so that what was once a roughly 30.5-metre diameter enclosure now reads as a truncated shape measuring only 25.5 metres east to west.

The defining feature that remains is a scarped edge, essentially a steeply cut slope in the earth, running from the west-north-west around to the south-south-west. That scarp stands about 1.8 metres high and nearly 9.65 metres wide, substantial enough to make the original structure legible in the landscape even after centuries of agricultural pressure. The field boundary that cuts across the base of the scarp to the south-east and south-south-west is no recent intrusion; it appears on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1841, meaning the encroachment is itself well over 180 years old. The record was compiled by Denis Power and uploaded to the survey in August 2011.

The site sits in open pasture, so access depends entirely on landowner permission, which is the usual situation with ringforts across Ireland. The interior slopes gently southward and, at the time of survey, was covered in thistles, which is a reasonable indication that this part of the field has been left relatively undisturbed. Visitors who do gain access should look for the surviving scarped bank on the western and southern arc, where the earthwork is most pronounced, and try to trace where the field boundary interrupts it. Reading the two features together, the ancient enclosure and the nineteenth-century wall line running through its base, gives a compressed sense of how Irish farmland accumulates its own quiet archaeology over time.