No earthwork rises from the ground here, no visible bank or ditch confronts the eye at field level. What survives instead is a cropmark, the faint differential browning or greening of crops grown over buried ditches, legible only from the air and only at the right time of year, tracing out a large circular enclosure roughly 70 metres across from north to south and east to west.

What the aerial and satellite images reveal is considerably more complex than a simple enclosure. The rath appears to be bivallate, meaning it was originally defined by two concentric banks and ditches rather than one, a form associated with higher-status ringforts in early medieval Ireland, roughly the period from the fifth to the twelfth centuries. In the Google Earth imagery, three fosses, or ditches, can actually be distinguished, with an internal diameter of around 39 metres. An entrance gap roughly six metres wide cuts through the innermost ditch and five metres wide through the middle one, both aligned to the east. Attached to the north-east of the main enclosure is a separate D-shaped area, approximately 35 metres across, defined by its own fosse and connected to the outer ring of the rath. Such annexes are sometimes interpreted as enclosures for livestock or as additional domestic or working space within the wider settlement. The whole complex sits in the valley of a small east-west stream, about 50 metres to the south of that watercourse and roughly 400 metres from where it meets the River Slaney flowing north to south. The cropmark evidence was first brought to wider attention by Jean Charles Caillere, who identified the site on Google Earth imagery dated to July 2018.

Because the site survives only as a cropmark, there is little to see on the ground. A farm lane cuts across the southern edge of the enclosure, and the surrounding land shows no obvious surface traces. The aerial evidence alone, however, maps out the skeleton of what was once a substantial and carefully organised early medieval settlement, quietly embedded in the river valley below.