This rath, or ringfort, a type of enclosed farmstead typically dating from the early medieval period, lies just five metres east of the townland boundary with Garrane, and roughly 125 metres east of a bowl-barrow, a prehistoric burial mound of a different era altogether. That proximity hints at a place where successive generations found reason to mark the ground.

When the antiquarian Thomas Johnson Westropp visited and recorded the site in 1920, he described it as a featureless ring mound, three to four feet high, with large hawthorns here and there on its circuit and, notably, no raised garth, meaning no elevated interior platform of the kind sometimes found in such monuments. The Ordnance Survey had already captured its circular outline on the 1897 twenty-five-inch map. When the Archaeological Survey of Ireland returned to measure and document it properly in 2007, the picture that emerged was of an oval earthwork, roughly twenty metres across its longest axis and fourteen metres across its shorter one, enclosed by an earthen bank and an external fosse, which is the ditch running around the outside of the bank. The bank survives best on its southern arc; to the north it has been reduced to faint traces. Several breaches in the bank, at the north, north-east, and south-east, are considered modern intrusions rather than original entrances. A field drain has cut across the fosse at the north-west, and an older field boundary visible on the six-inch Ordnance Survey map to the south has since been removed entirely. Westropp also noted that this monument lay within the vicinity of the Óenach Cairbre, an early Irish assembly place associated with the flood plain of the Camoge River, adding a layer of territorial and ceremonial significance to the wider area.

The site sits in working farmland and the interior, though dry underfoot, is planted with trees, which makes the earthwork easier to spot from aerial imagery than from the ground. Overhead views from the OSi orthoimages and Google Earth show it clearly as an irregular tree-covered rise. Visitors approaching on foot should expect wet pasture on the surrounding slope, particularly in wetter months, and the bank itself is subtle enough that the treeline is often the more obvious indicator of where to look. The bowl-barrow to the west is a separate monument and worth locating on the map before setting out.