These were the farmsteads of early Irish society, typically enclosing a family's dwelling within a bank and ditch, and thousands of them once dotted the Irish countryside. What makes this particular example quietly interesting is not drama but subtlety: the earthwork has been so thoroughly absorbed into the working agricultural landscape that a modern field boundary has been built directly on top of part of its ancient bank, the two structures now merged into a single ridge running north to south.

The rath itself is oval in plan, measuring roughly 30 metres east to west and 24 metres north to south. Its enclosing bank of earth and stone stands about a metre high on the interior and runs to around four metres wide. Around the outer base of the bank ran a fosse, a shallow defensive ditch, here measuring just under four metres wide and now only about 20 centimetres deep. Unusually, the fosse survives only on the southern arc of the site and is absent elsewhere, suggesting either that it was never completed on all sides, or that centuries of agricultural use have levelled the remainder. No trace of the original entrance remains recognisable.