It measures roughly 72 metres north to south and 53.5 metres east to west, making it a substantial example of a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, which is essentially a circular or oval enclosure defined by an earthen bank and a surrounding ditch. These were the farmsteads and defended homesteads of early medieval Ireland, built in their tens of thousands between roughly the fifth and twelfth centuries. This one sits in fair condition, with its bank and external fosse, the ditch that runs around the outside of the bank, still readable in the landscape.

The fosse survives most clearly from the south-west around to the north-west, while the bank itself, from the south-west stretching north, has been heavily colonised by trees and bushes over the years. A stream runs just outside the monument on its eastern side, which would have been a practical consideration for anyone living within the enclosure. The rath is large enough that it actually straddles two Ordnance Survey map sheets, which gives some sense of its footprint on the ground. The broader landscape here is low-lying, and the ridge on which the monument sits, however modest in elevation, would have offered both visibility and a degree of drainage that flat ground nearby could not.