What makes this particular rath worth a second look is the layering of different periods and purposes compressed into a small area: early medieval enclosure, possible underground passage, and a 19th-century industrial structure all occupying more or less the same ground.

The ringfort, a circular enclosure defined by an earthen bank, was the standard form of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, typically surrounding a farmstead and its associated buildings. Here the bank measures roughly 31 metres in diameter and stands about 0.8 metres high. Its southern arc has been absorbed into the surrounding field fence system, a fate common to many such monuments as agricultural land management gradually reshaped the landscape around them. Within the interior, there is a possible souterrain, an underground stone-lined passage or chamber that in early medieval contexts was used for storage or as a place of refuge. The entrance to the enclosure, recorded by Harnett in 1939, appears to have faced south-south-west. What the 1842 Ordnance Survey six-inch map adds to the picture is a limekiln set into the external face of the bank at roughly the same southern aspect. A limekiln is a stone-built furnace used to burn limestone and produce quicklime for agricultural or building purposes, and this one was clearly constructed by taking advantage of the existing earthen bank as a structural support, pressing an ancient boundary into service for a thoroughly practical 19th-century purpose.