The enclosure measures approximately fifty metres across internally, defined by an earthen bank and an outer fosse, or ditch, that runs around it. What sets it apart from a purely earthen construction is the bank's facing: stone lines its exterior surface, suggesting a degree of deliberate finish that goes beyond simple soil-throwing.

A rath was the most common form of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, typically dating from roughly the fifth to the twelfth century, and usually associated with a farming family of some social standing. They were enclosed farmsteads rather than fortifications in any military sense, though the bank and fosse together would have kept livestock in and wolves or raiders out. This particular example, with an internal bank height of around 0.7 metres and a fosse roughly two metres wide and one metre deep, sits at the modest end of the scale, though the stone-facing hints at a builder who took some care with the work. By 1997, when the site was assessed, trees had established themselves both around the perimeter and within the interior, their roots threading through whatever archaeology remains beneath the surface.