A rath, as this type of enclosure is known, was typically a circular earthwork enclosing a farmstead during the early medieval period, defined by a raised bank and ditch. Here, the bank has gone entirely, leaving only a low grassy platform, roughly 32 metres north to south and 34.5 metres east to west, sitting just slightly above the surrounding rush-grown ground. That modest elevation is the whole of it.

The enclosure was recorded on the 1838 Ordnance Survey six-inch map, which makes it one of the more reliable early benchmarks for such sites in Ireland, but it had already vanished from later map editions, suggesting the earthwork was levelled sometime in the nineteenth century. The Gweestion River runs approximately 100 metres to the east, and the platform sits with open views south-east along the river valley, the kind of position that would have made practical sense for an early settlement watching over low-lying ground. A field fence running north-east to south-west has since clipped the northern edge of the platform, and faint cultivation ridges running on a north-south axis cross the site, the traces of later agricultural use that followed whatever the original enclosure once held.