A rath, to use the proper term, is a ringfort of earthen construction, typically built during the early medieval period as a defended farmstead for a family of some local standing. This one has not fared well against the centuries. The surrounding bank survives only as a denuded ridge running from the north-east, around through the south, and back up to the north-west. At the northern arc, even that much has gone, replaced by a silage pit that has removed whatever surface evidence once remained.

The site belongs to a broader pattern of early medieval settlement that was once dense across this part of north Galway. A second enclosure was recorded approximately 200 metres to the west, suggesting that the immediate landscape was not simply the territory of one isolated farmstead but something more layered in its occupation. The condition of this particular rath, however, makes it a study in how agricultural land use across the post-medieval and modern periods has steadily worn down earthworks that once defined the social geography of the Irish countryside.