A rath, or ringfort, is the most common monument type in the Irish countryside, a defended enclosure typically dating from the early medieval period and used as a farmstead or residence. What makes this one quietly interesting is not just its survival but the way its various components have weathered at different rates, leaving an uneven archaeological silhouette that cartographers and field surveyors have interpreted differently across nearly a century of mapping.

The Ordnance Survey captured it as a clean hachured circle of around fifty metres diameter on its 1842 six-inch map. By the 1904 revision, a bank was still traceable on the south-south-east to north-north-west arc, with a scarp defining the rest; by 1938 only the scarp from north to south-west remained clearly legible on paper. On the ground, the picture is more layered. The interior measures roughly 50.5 metres east to west and 47.5 metres north to south. A low earthen bank survives to the west-north-west, standing about half a metre internally, while a scarp on the eastern side rises to 1.8 metres, partly because the interior has been deliberately raised on the east and south to level out the natural slope of the hillside, a practical piece of early medieval earthmoving. Beyond the core enclosure, an outer earthen bank standing 1.4 metres high runs from south-south-east to west, fronted by a fosse, or ditch, of around 0.6 metres depth. That outer bank retains stone facing on its external side, a detail suggesting rather more investment in its construction than a bare earthwork might imply. P.J. Hartnett, writing in 1939, noted that the inner rampart still survived in the south-west quadrant at that point but had been levelled to the east and north, and that the fort had been ploughed at some earlier period. He also recorded an entrance on the northern side. Somewhere in the western half of the interior lies a possible souterrain, an underground passage or chamber of the kind frequently found within ringforts, though its extent is unconfirmed.