No original entrance survives, or at least none is visible above ground, which gives the enclosure a faintly sealed quality, as though it has simply decided to keep its own counsel.

A rath is an earthen ringfort, the most common monument type in the Irish countryside, typically built during the early medieval period as a defended farmstead for a single family or small household. This one follows the classic form: a roughly circular interior about fifty metres across, thrown up behind an earthen bank and separated from the world by an external fosse, which is a ditch dug to heighten the effective height of the bank above it. Here there is also an intermittent outer bank beyond the fosse, giving the enclosure a double-ringed profile in places, a feature associated with higher-status sites. The interior is largely level, though modern quarry holes have been cut into the northern and eastern sides; the eastern one has since been largely infilled. The land beyond the eastern edge falls away sharply to a small stream, and the surrounding fields, many of them reclaimed and some cultivated, stretch away across the undulating grassland of the valley floor in every direction.