What survives is a rath, the Irish term for a roughly circular earthen enclosure typically used as a farmstead between around the fifth and twelfth centuries. This one is subcircular in plan, measuring approximately 47 metres north to south and 45 metres east to west, and it has not worn well. The ground is soft, the centuries have been unkind, and the features that would once have made its purpose unmistakable are now fragmentary at best.

The enclosure was originally defined by an inner bank, a fosse (a defensive ditch cut between the bank and any outer earthwork), and traces of what may be a second, outer bank. The inner bank survives most clearly along the arc running from north-northeast to east-southeast. Elsewhere the enclosure is marked by a scarp, a natural or cut slope rather than a built-up bank, and this has been further obscured along the west-northwest to west-southwest stretch by a later field boundary laid directly on top of it. That kind of overwriting is common in the Irish countryside, where farmers across many generations made practical use of whatever slight rises or ditches the land offered, regardless of their original purpose. The possible outer bank is faintly visible from the south, continuing around through the west to west-northwest, though calling it a bank at this stage of its preservation is a generous interpretation.