The typical Irish rath, an enclosed farmstead of the early medieval period defined by a circular earthen bank and surrounding ditch, tends to measure somewhere between twenty and fifty metres in diameter. This one clears that upper limit by some margin, and that scale alone quietly sets it apart from the hundreds of similar enclosures scattered across the Irish midlands.

The monument was described by surveyors in both 1971 and 1976, and what they recorded was already a site in partial retreat. The inner bank, which encloses the roughly circular interior, survives to a height of about one and a half metres along the southern arc, its most intact section, but drops to between three quarters of a metre and a metre elsewhere, and has been worn down to a mere scarp along the north-northeast to eastern stretch. A fosse, the external ditch that would originally have reinforced the bank as a boundary and modest defensive feature, is only faintly traceable in places. At the southwest, both bank and fosse have been levelled entirely. The original entrance, which in similar monuments is usually identified by a deliberate gap or causeway through the earthworks, is no longer readable in the ground. A modern field bank now bisects the interior from northwest to southeast, and an earthen field fence follows the outer edge of the bank to the northwest, the agricultural landscape having quietly absorbed the ancient one over many centuries. Despite all this, the site sits on well-drained pasture with open views to the north and northwest, so the fundamental logic of its placement, commanding ground, good drainage, visibility across the surrounding land, remains easy to appreciate.