The site is a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, which was the most common form of rural settlement in Ireland from roughly the sixth to the twelfth century. A rath typically consists of a roughly circular earthen bank and an outer ditch, enclosing a domestic space where a farming family would have lived, kept animals, and gone about their daily lives. This one, in the townland of Rahogarty, measures about forty metres across on its north-south axis, but little of that original form is easy to read today.

What survives is fragmentary. The enclosing bank can still be traced at the north and in a broad arc from the east-south-east, round through the south to the west. The outer fosse, the ditch that would have been dug to create the bank material and serve as an additional boundary, runs from the north-north-west through the east to the south-south-east. Elsewhere, the ground surface gives nothing away. A field wall, probably of much later construction, has been built directly on top of the enclosing elements between the north-north-east and east, compounding the obscurity. A gap visible at the south appears to be a modern intrusion rather than the original entrance. The picture that emerges is of a monument that has been eroded by centuries of farming, boundary-making, and simple weathering, surviving only in partial outline like a sentence with most of its words worn away.