Placed at the break of slope at the north-north-western end of a ridge, it commands wide views over the surrounding rolling grassland, particularly to the north-west where a shallow valley of damp pasture stretches away toward a stream or drain some 200 metres to the west. Whoever chose this spot understood something about visibility, both of and from the site.

A rath is a type of ringfort, typically a circular raised enclosure defined by an earthen bank and ditch, used as a farmstead or settlement during the early medieval period in Ireland. This example is roughly circular, measuring just over 31 metres east to west and around 35 metres north to south. The defining bank survives in varied condition: at the east-south-east it still carries a low internal lip, while elsewhere it has been reduced to a scarp, the western side standing to an external height of around 1.2 metres. The north-west and north-east sections are eroded and dilapidated, and there is a two-metre break in the perimeter at the north-east, possibly the location of an original entrance. Perhaps the most significant feature is a souterrain occupying the western half of the interior. A souterrain is an underground stone-lined passage or chamber, commonly associated with ringforts and thought to have served for storage or as a place of refuge. There also appears to be a depression in the north-east quadrant, defined by a low scarp on its southern side, though dense overgrowth prevented close examination. Hawthorn and blackthorn have since reclaimed much of the eastern perimeter and are encroaching on the interior. A second rath lies just 230 metres to the north-west, suggesting this corner of Mayo once carried a more concentrated pattern of early settlement than the quiet pasture around it might now suggest.