The raised platform, roughly twenty-two metres across, is all that remains of a rath, a type of ringfort that was once among the most common forms of early medieval farmstead across Ireland. Where a fully intact example would show a bank and ditch enclosing a domestic space, what survives here is defined instead by a scarp, essentially the eroded face of an earthen edge, standing between one metre and one point two metres high. The eastern side has been partially levelled, and whatever gap once served as the original entrance has long since been smoothed away.

What makes this particular site a little stranger than its battered condition alone might suggest are the quarry holes cut into the raised interior and into the scarp along the northern edge. At some point, the earthwork itself became a source of material rather than simply a remnant to be avoided. This kind of secondary interference is not unusual on Irish ringforts, which over centuries have been robbed for stone, dug for drainage, and in some cases deliberately cleared for agriculture, but the quarrying here has left visible scars that complicate any reading of the original form. The site sits on ground that undulates around it, and the low ridge it occupies would have offered a modest but practical elevation for a farming enclosure in the early medieval period, roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries.