That near-invisibility is itself the point. What remains of this early medieval ringfort, a type of circular enclosure used across Ireland as a defended farmstead from roughly the fifth to the twelfth centuries, amounts to little more than a faint circular depression and a heavily worn bank, the whole thing measuring around 37.8 metres across its north-south axis. The earthwork has been levelled to the point where only a trained eye, or a very attentive one, would register it as anything other than a slight irregularity in the ground.

The site has a quiet documentary history that makes its current state somewhat poignant. When the first edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map was produced in 1840, the enclosure was clearly legible enough to be recorded as a distinct circular feature. By the time the revised edition was published between 1901 and 1905, the shape had already begun to drift, appearing slightly squarer in outline, suggesting that the bank had been disturbed or spread in the intervening decades. Agricultural improvement, which reshaped so much of the Irish midland and Tipperary landscape across the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, is the most likely cause. The ridge-top position, which would originally have given the occupants of the rath a commanding view of the surrounding terrain, also made it attractive land to bring under the plough or to consolidate into larger fields.