Most ringforts, the enclosed farmsteads of early medieval Ireland, survive only as a single bank and ditch. This one retains two concentric banks with a fosse between them, the fosse being the broad ditch dug to supply the material for the banks themselves. The double enclosure suggests the site may have belonged to someone of above-average local standing, since the extra effort of construction was not undertaken lightly.

The rath measures roughly fifty metres in diameter, and the outer bank remains visible along the north-east and southern arcs. At the north-east there is a gap of about three metres in the earthwork, which may represent the original entrance; entrances on the eastern side of a rath were conventional in early Irish practice, and a north-east orientation is not unusual. The site appears in records going back to Athy in 1914 and was noted again by McCaffrey in 1952, suggesting it was already well enough preserved at those dates to attract documentation, and it has changed little in the intervening decades.