What was once a rath, a type of circular earthwork enclosure used as a farmstead during the early medieval period, typically defined by one or more banks and ditches, survives here as little more than a faint impression in improved pasture. The circular area measures roughly 25 metres in diameter, and its defining feature is now just the ghost of a fosse, the surrounding ditch, visible only if conditions are right and you know what you are looking for.

The site's slow disappearance can be traced through the documentary record. The first edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1840 shows a semi-circular form already truncated by a field fence, with overall dimensions of approximately 47 metres east-northeast to west-southwest and 30 metres north-northwest to south-southeast. By the time a sketch plan with sections was drawn in 1954, the picture was largely the same. A note made by Cahill in 1982 described the site as being in fair condition at that point, with one bank and one ditch still discernible, though disturbed to the south by the field boundary that had been cutting across it for well over a century by then. The intervening decades have not been kind, and what Cahill recorded as fair condition has since faded considerably. Adding a further layer of interest, a second ringfort lies only about 8 metres to the north, suggesting this south-facing slope was once a more densely settled corner of Tipperary than the present empty pasture implies.