A rath is an early medieval earthen ringfort, typically the enclosed homestead of a farming family, and this one sits on a natural hillock in undulating Sligo pasture in such a way that its constructed elements and the land beneath them have become almost indistinguishable. The external slope of the enclosing bank simply merges with the sides of the hillock, which rises to around six and a half metres, making it genuinely difficult to read where geology ends and human effort begins.

The platform itself is roughly circular, measuring twenty-three metres east to west and twenty-one metres north to south, topped by an earthen bank two to three metres wide. Around part of the perimeter, between the north-west and east, a fosse, the defensive ditch that would originally have reinforced the bank, survives as a shallow depression roughly three and a half metres wide and up to sixty centimetres deep. On the south-east to west side this gives way instead to a level terrace, suggesting the ground has settled or shifted differently on that arc over the centuries. The original entrance is still legible at the north-east, where a gap of just under three metres breaks the bank and a ramp-like causeway, around two metres wide, carries the old approach path across the fosse. Inside the enclosed area, a number of quarry holes with accompanying mounds of upcast earth point to some later disturbance, though whether this was agricultural, antiquarian, or something else entirely the ground does not say.