Ploughing has flattened much of it, but the ground still holds the memory of a roughly circular raised area, measuring around 26 metres north to south and just under 30 metres east to west. That slight swelling in the pasture, easy to miss if you are not looking for it, is what remains of a rath, the most common type of early medieval settlement in Ireland. A rath typically consisted of an earthen bank, sometimes reinforced with stone, enclosing a circular area where a farming family would have kept their dwelling and livestock, the whole protected by one or more surrounding ditches known as fosses.

Here, a fosse is still traceable to the north-west of the monument, roughly two metres wide though now only about ten centimetres deep, worn down by centuries of agricultural activity. The bank in the south-east quadrant has all but dissolved into the natural slope of the hill, which itself tilts steeply in that direction. The north quadrant has suffered the most obvious recent damage, worn away to a noticeably lower level than the rest, most likely where a tractor has been cutting a regular path through the monument. The interior is grass-covered and unremarkable to the casual eye, which is precisely what makes it worth pausing over: the ordinary-looking field carries the outline of a settlement that could date back well over a thousand years, its geometry still faintly legible beneath the rough pasture.