Lime kilns were used to burn limestone and produce quicklime for agricultural or building purposes, and finding one built directly into the fabric of an early medieval enclosure speaks to the long afterlife these sites had, repurposed and reworked by later generations who found the ready-made stonework convenient.

The rath itself, a ringfort of the type once numbering in the tens of thousands across Ireland, takes an oval form measuring roughly 23.8 metres east to west and 18.4 metres north to south. A rath is essentially a raised, banked enclosure, most commonly associated with early medieval settlement, where a farming family would have lived within the protected interior. Here the enclosing bank is low, only about 15 centimetres high, though it retains evidence of stone kerbing on both its inner and outer faces. The original entrance is still readable: a gap in the bank on the south-east side, about three metres wide, with a causeway leading through it. A section of the bank running from the south-south-west around to the west-north-west has been absorbed into a field boundary wall, now disused, which is the kind of quiet continuity common in Irish field systems. About 8.4 metres out from the north-east of the bank, a low arc of raised ground may represent the remnant of an outer enclosing wall or bank, suggesting the site was once more elaborately defended or defined than it appears today.

The complexity does not end with the rath proper. Immediately to the north, a semi-circular feature roughly three metres across is built into a low rise, and just beyond it an irregularly shaped area over seventeen metres wide is outlined by a curving line of stones set contiguously. What these features represent, whether ancillary enclosures, animal pens, or something else entirely, remains unclear, but they suggest the site functioned as part of a wider arrangement of activity rather than as a lone, isolated enclosure on the hillside.