What remains of this rath, a type of enclosed farmstead built during the early medieval period, typically between the fifth and twelfth centuries, is barely legible as a man-made feature. The outer fosse, a shallow defensive ditch that once ringed the enclosure, can still be traced from the north around to the east, but for much of the rest of its circuit it has been reduced to little more than a change in vegetation, a slightly different shade or texture of grass marking where the ditch once ran.

The enclosure measures roughly 40 metres north to south and 38 metres east to west, making it a modest but not unusual example of its type. Raths of this scale were the ordinary farmsteads of early medieval Ireland, the homes of farming families who built a bank and ditch around their dwelling as much for enclosing livestock as for any serious defence. At Lissanacody, the bank still defines the shape of the site, though it is described as very poorly preserved. A possible entrance gap on the south-south-east side is the only other structural detail that survives, and even that is tentative. The site was recorded as part of the Galway Archaeological Survey, carried out in association with University College Galway.