This is a rath, a type of ringfort that was the most common form of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, typically used as a defended farmstead by a family of some local standing. What gives this one its quiet authority is the scale of its surviving earthworks: the outer bank of the enclosing ring rises to 3.4 metres on the exterior, a considerable height for a structure that has spent many centuries in a field.

The rath consists of a raised circular platform roughly 25 metres in diameter, enclosed within an earthen bank. At the base of that bank lies a fosse, a ditch cut to reinforce the sense of enclosure and make direct approach more difficult, measuring about 3.2 metres in width. Beyond the fosse runs a further external bank, lower and broader, adding another layer of definition to the whole arrangement. The combined effect of platform, bank, ditch, and outer bank gives the site an almost formal geometry that the surrounding grass does nothing to soften. Whoever chose this spot understood the ridge; positioned on its north-western upper slope, the site commands the approach from below while the steep ground on all sides does part of the defensive work for it.

Visitors should be aware that the interior of the rath is currently dense with scrub, making any close inspection of the enclosed platform effectively impossible. The earthworks themselves, however, are legible from the outside, and the ridge setting gives a strong sense of why this particular piece of Sligo ground was considered worth enclosing and defending.