That absence is itself unusual. Most raths, the circular or near-circular enclosures built across Ireland during the early medieval period as enclosed farmsteads, retain at least a trace of a fosse, the defensive ditch typically dug around the outside of the bank. Here, none is visible. What remains is a grass-covered oval, roughly 27 metres east to west and 23 metres north to south, bounded by an earth and stone bank that survives to just under a metre in height on the exterior along its south-east to north-east arc, and diminishes to a low scarp of one to two metres elsewhere.

The site is noted in the Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim, compiled by Michael J. Moore and published in 2003. Its position in the landscape is worth pausing over: it occupies not a commanding hilltop, as many ringforts do, but the sheltered valley floor beside a stream running north-west to south-east down the slope of Crocknagaple Hill. Whether this placement was chosen for water access, for protection from prevailing winds, or simply because this was the ground available to whoever built it, the notes do not say. What they do record is a further peculiarity of the enclosure's situation: a stone wall marking the townland boundary between Brackary More and Kilroosk runs around the outside of the rath at a distance of roughly three metres from the bank, tracing almost the same arc. Townland boundaries in Ireland are ancient things, and the fact that this one appears to follow the line of the rath so closely suggests the enclosure was already a fixed feature in the landscape when the boundary was drawn, old enough to have become a landmark that later administration chose to respect rather than cut across.