What makes this rath worth pausing over is the way its defences have survived unevenly, leaving a kind of archaeological puzzle in the ground. The full circuit of banks and ditch is no longer intact, but what remains is enough to read the original logic of the place.

A rath is a ringfort, the most common monument type in the Irish countryside, typically a circular enclosure defined by one or more earthen banks with an intervening fosse, the ditch from which the bank material was dug. This example at Kilmurry measures around 46.5 metres in diameter, which places it in the middle range of such enclosures. What survives is a two-bank arrangement with a fosse between them, though the inner enclosing element on the southern and south-western arc has been reduced to a scarp, a simple slope in the ground rather than a raised bank. The outer bank and fosse are better preserved on the western and north-western sides. Neary recorded the site in 1914, and the condition described then, fair but partial, suggests the earthworks have been holding their own for at least a century without dramatic deterioration.