What makes this one at Shinglis quietly arresting is the situation it now finds itself in. The land surrounding it has been commercially quarried away, leaving the monument marooned on its natural rise like something placed there deliberately, the gravel hillside stripped back on all sides to expose the rath in sharp relief against the excavated ground around it.

The earthwork itself is a sub-circular enclosure, roughly 31 metres north to south and 29 metres east to west, defined by two earthen banks with a shallow intervening fosse, the term for the ditch typically dug to provide material for the banks and to add a further barrier. The inner bank is low, and the fosse is only clearly traceable in the south-west and north-east quadrants. The outer bank is barely more than a berm, a narrow shelf of earth, and only survives visibly on the south to south-east arc. Within the interior, faint traces of cultivation ridges run east to west, the kind of parallel earthen furrows left by repeated agricultural use over generations. Several depressions are also visible inside, thought to be the result of quarrying activity rather than anything from the monument's original occupation. From its hilltop position the site would once have commanded good views in all directions, a quality that mattered both practically and symbolically to whoever chose to build there.