What survives is a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, a type of enclosed settlement built from the early centuries of the first millennium through to roughly 1000 AD, when farming families raised a bank and sometimes a ditch around their homestead for a combination of security and social display. This one is nearly oval rather than perfectly round, measuring about 35.5 metres north to south and 41 metres east to west, with a low earthen bank that still stands around half a metre in height on the better-preserved sections.

The bank has been levelled along the northern and eastern arc, most likely through generations of agricultural activity that gradually smoothed and spread the earthwork until it almost disappeared into the surrounding pasture. What makes the interior slightly unusual is the presence of two linear earthen mounds running across it. These internal features are not typical of a standard ringfort interior, where one might expect traces of a souterrain, an underground stone-lined passage sometimes used for storage or refuge, or the faint circular marks of a timber house. The two mounds here may represent later agricultural activity, sub-divisions within the enclosure, or earlier features whose precise function is now difficult to read without excavation.