This is a rath, a type of ringfort built from a circular bank of earth and sometimes stone, thrown up around a homestead to signal status and provide a degree of enclosure or protection. What remains here is considerably humbler than that original intention suggests: the bank has eroded badly, surviving to an internal height of only about a metre and a width of barely half a metre in places, and a fosse, the external ditch that would once have reinforced the enclosure, can be traced only faintly on the northern side.

The site has been further disrupted by the ordinary workings of agricultural life over the centuries. The enclosing bank has been absorbed into an existing field boundary along its north-western arc, effectively cannibalising the monument into the landscape's more recent geometry. A field boundary running roughly north-east to south-west now cuts across the interior, dividing the rath into two unequal portions. The smaller, north-eastern section has fared worst; only the faintest outline of its circuit can still be read on the ground. No trace of the original entrance survives in an identifiable form, so the approach that early inhabitants would have used to enter their enclosed space is now entirely a matter of conjecture.