A rath, to use the Irish term, is a roughly circular earthwork enclosure, typically raised during the early medieval period as a farmstead or place of status, defined by one or more banks and ditches. This example goes a step further, having once possessed two concentric banks, which would have given it a more elaborate, defended character than the single-ringed variety more commonly encountered across the countryside. What survives today is a fragmentary, overgrown outline of that original plan, half-absorbed into the working landscape around it.

The monument was recorded on the 1924 Ordnance Survey six-inch map as a sub-oval enclosure roughly forty metres across in both directions, its double-bank circuit running from north to southwest before being indicated only by a line for the rest of its circumference. That partial survival is telling. The inner bank, constructed of earth and stone, still stands to an internal height of around 1.8 metres along part of its arc, with a collapsed stone wall resting along its crest. A gap just over a metre wide at the west-northwest may represent the original entrance. The outer bank, by contrast, has fared considerably worse: its northern section has been quietly absorbed into a modern field boundary, which accounts for its reduced profile. A later stone wall cuts across the site from north-northwest to east-southeast, truncating the enclosure further, and a separate field wall slices across the inner bank at the west. These intrusions, accumulated across centuries of agricultural reorganisation, have left the interior surface uneven and difficult to interpret on the ground. The record was compiled by Denis Power and uploaded in March 2013.

Accessing the site is not straightforward. The interior is masked by dense scrub vegetation and fallen trees, making a clear view of the earthworks unlikely without some persistence. The proximity of the second rath, sitting roughly twenty metres to the southwest, makes the area worth approaching slowly and with some attention to the ground underfoot, since field boundaries in this part of Limerick have a habit of concealing earlier features. The clearest sections of the inner bank are found along the western to northern arc, where the earth-and-stone construction is most legible. The outer bank is most visible between northwest and north before it disappears into the field boundary, so that stretch rewards a second look.