It is not dramatic to look at now, but the geometry is still legible: a raised platform roughly 26 metres across, shaped by human hands in an era when such enclosures were the dominant form of rural settlement across Ireland.

This is a rath, the earthen variety of ringfort, a class of monument built throughout the early medieval period, broadly the fifth to twelfth centuries, as enclosed farmsteads for single family groups. The bank at the southern side survives in the most complete form, measuring nearly six metres wide and standing about 2.8 metres on its outer face, though its inner height has collapsed to almost nothing. Elsewhere the bank has been reduced to a simple scarp, still roughly 2.2 metres high on the western side. Outside the north-east to south-east arc, there is a broad depression some five metres wide that might once have been a fosse, the external ditch that typically accompanied such banks, though it is equally possible this hollow was created by the same quarrying that has disrupted the enclosed area. A gap of about two metres in the bank at the south-south-east is tentatively identified as the original entrance, which, if so, would place it in broadly the same southerly orientation favoured by many comparable sites across the country. What the interior once held, whether a house platform, outbuildings, or souterrains, underground stone-lined passages sometimes associated with ringforts, is now obscured by the later disturbance.