What catches the eye is how seamlessly the old and the relatively recent have merged: a later field wall runs directly along the top of the original bank from the south-west to the north-west, so that what was once a purely prehistoric boundary has been pressed into agricultural service at some point in the intervening centuries. The gap in the south-east of the enclosure appears to be original, suggesting that this was always the intended entrance.

The structure is a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, a type of enclosed settlement that was built and used across Ireland roughly between the early medieval period and the end of the first millennium. Typically defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches, raths served as farmsteads or high-status homesteads, and thousands survive in varying degrees across the country. This example measures approximately 49 metres north to south and 46 metres east to west, placing it comfortably within the middle range of known examples. More unusually, a clochán, or corbelled stone building (recorded under the reference GA070-099001-), survives within the interior. Clocháns are dry-stone structures, roofed by progressively overlapping courses of stone rather than any timber or thatch, and their presence inside a rath is not common. The combination of an intact entrance gap, a legible bank, and an interior structure makes this a notably complete survival, even if the condition is described as only fair.