What survives is a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, a type of enclosed farmstead built and occupied across Ireland roughly between the third and tenth centuries. Thousands were constructed, yet each one is a small puzzle left in the landscape, and this one has its share of ambiguities.

The earthen bank is most legible along the south-east to east arc, where a scarp still stands to around 1.45 metres. A fosse, or defensive ditch, roughly 2.3 metres wide, can be traced in places, particularly along the south-west arc and around the north-west to north-east. Unusually, the fosse appears to splay outward at the north-west and south-west, directing itself towards the stream that runs close by to the west and north-west, suggesting a deliberate connection between the enclosure's drainage and the watercourse. A possible entrance through the bank at the south retains what may be stone-facing on the internal face at either side, though heavy vegetation made a thorough examination difficult at the time of survey. A gap in the bank at the west is likely a cattle gap, a later, practical breach made to move livestock through the enclosure, a common modification to raths that were pressed back into agricultural use long after their original occupants were gone. The interior, sealed under dense overgrowth, keeps its secrets for now.