What survives here is a rath, a type of circular earthen ringfort that was the standard unit of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, typically enclosing a farmstead and its outbuildings. At roughly 46 metres in diameter, this one would have been a modest but respectable example in its time. Today, it is barely there at all.

The monument survives in a very poor state of preservation. The defining features of a rath are its encircling bank and the external fosse, a ditch dug around the outside from which the earth for the bank was originally thrown up. Here, the fosse can still be traced all the way around the circuit, which is itself quietly remarkable given the pressures of agricultural land reclamation over the centuries. The bank, however, has almost entirely vanished. Only a remnant arc from the north-east, around through the east and down to the south-east, remains detectable above the surface. The rest has been levelled, absorbed back into the managed grassland that now covers this part of County Galway. The tension between what is visible and what is only implied gives the site an understated quality; a full circle of intention, legible only in fragments.