A rath is an early medieval farmstead enclosed by one or more earthen banks and ditches, the dominant form of rural settlement in Ireland from roughly the sixth to the twelfth century. Tens of thousands were built across the country, but a great many have since been levelled by agriculture, eroded by weather, or quietly swallowed by later development. This one survives only in part, its bank stretching roughly 56 metres from west-northwest to north-northeast, partially obscured by bushes, with a slight inward curve at the northwest end that hints at the fuller circuit it once formed.

Two editions of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, those of 1846 and 1893 to 1894, both record the enclosure as a roughly oval shape, though the dimensions differ slightly between the two surveys: approximately 80 metres northwest to southeast on the earlier map, and closer to 70 metres on the later one. Whether that reflects real change on the ground or variation in how the surveyors interpreted what they saw is hard to say. What remains today is a bank about two metres wide, rising to an external height of around 2.1 metres, with a lower internal face of 0.8 metres. At the northern stretch, traces of a stone wall survive on top of the bank, suggesting that at some point the earthwork was reinforced or rebuilt in stone. A shallow depression near the inner face of the bank at the north may indicate the site of a former structure, though nothing more than the outline remains. The southern portion of the interior has been put to an entirely different kind of use: an underground water pipe and reservoir now occupy that sector, a practical intrusion that quietly underlines how thoroughly these ancient enclosures have been absorbed into the working landscape around them.