The enclosing earthen bank, a rath, which is the Irish term for a ringfort built from raised earth rather than stone, survives to about 1.2 metres in height, and its circuit measures approximately 45 metres north to south and 35 metres east to west. These earthen ringforts were typically the enclosed farmsteads of prosperous families during the early medieval period, roughly the fifth to twelfth centuries, and thousands of them once dotted the Irish countryside. This one is quiet and undemonstrative, its bank worn and partial, its interior showing the scars of quarrying at several points where someone, at some unknown stage, dug into the ground within the old enclosure.

The site sits within what was once a demesne landscape, and a field fence running along its eastern side cuts across the remains, overlying the bank where the two meet. That superimposition tells a small story common to many Irish ringforts: gradual absorption into later agricultural patterns, the old boundary giving way to newer ones, the monument becoming a convenient quarry or simply an inconvenience to be worked around. A survey of the Ballinrobe district compiled by D. Lavelle in 1994, covering the wider area around Lough Mask and Lough Carra, recorded the site and noted its condition, cataloguing it among the many early medieval traces that survive in this part of County Mayo.