The double naming is a quiet signal that this is not quite an ordinary earthen rath. A rath, in Irish archaeology, is a roughly circular enclosure defined by an earthen bank and ditch, used as a farmstead during the early medieval period, broadly the fifth to twelfth centuries. What distinguishes this one is the stonework woven into its earthen structure, placing it somewhere between a purely earthen rath and a fully stone-built cashel.

The enclosure measures approximately 22.5 metres north to south and 21.6 metres east to west. Its bank still stands to an external height of around 1.8 metres, and traces of stone-facing survive on the inner face, though much of it has collapsed over the centuries. To the east, a flat-bottomed fosse, the external ditch that once added another layer of defence or demarcation, remains partly visible, measuring about 2.8 metres wide and a metre deep. The entrance, at the north-northeast, is stone-faced and well-defined, just over two metres wide, the kind of deliberate construction detail that suggests this was a carefully maintained enclosure rather than a hastily raised one. Inside, in the southern half, lie the foundations of a small drystone hut with an internal diameter of just over six metres. Ordnance Survey maps record the spot as "Cloghaun (site of)", from the Irish cloichán, a small stone building or beehive hut, a form associated with both secular and ecclesiastical use in early medieval Ireland. The hut interior is filled with stone, and a dense scatter of stone sits immediately outside its northern wall, suggesting either deliberate demolition or long collapse.