At thirteen and a half metres across, it is too broad to read comfortably as simple erosion or agricultural damage, and may instead represent an original entrance that was widened at some point, either by deliberate modification or by centuries of use.

The site is a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, a type of enclosed farmstead built predominantly during the early medieval period, roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries. Thousands of them survive across Ireland in varying states of preservation, though many have been lost to ploughing and development. This one measures thirty-five metres in diameter and retains its defining bank and external fosse, the fosse being a surrounding ditch designed to reinforce the bank thrown up from its excavation. The fosse survives most clearly at the northern and south-western stretches of the circuit, giving a reasonable sense of what the full enclosure would once have looked like. The overall condition is described as fair, which in the context of earthwork archaeology often means enough survives to read the structure clearly while acknowledging that time and land use have taken some toll.