The enclosure measures approximately 39 metres north to south and 40 metres east to west, and despite being heavily overgrown, its essential structure is still legible in the landscape: an earthen bank rising to about 1.2 metres, and beyond that an external fosse, or ditch, cut to a depth of around 1.8 metres. These are the defining features of a rath, the commonest type of early medieval settlement in Ireland, typically built to enclose a farmstead and its associated activity. The bank and fosse together were less about military defence than about marking boundaries, controlling livestock, and asserting a degree of social status.

The southern side preserves the original entrance, a gap nearly five metres wide with a causeway crossing the fosse, which would have allowed people and animals to pass in and out without descending into the ditch. From this position atop the hill, the site commands open views to the south and west, a placement that was probably deliberate, offering both surveillance of the surrounding land and a degree of visibility that signalled occupation and ownership. Stone field boundaries adjoin the site to the east and south-west, hinting at a longer agricultural history in the area, layers of land use that have accumulated around this older enclosure without quite absorbing it. The site is recorded as part of a 1994 archaeological survey of the Ballinrobe district, which also covered the areas around Lough Mask and Lough Carra, a region with a particularly dense concentration of early historic and prehistoric monuments.