In a gently undulating field roughly two hundred metres north of a stream, the faint outlines of a circular rath persist in the grass, measuring around thirty-five metres in diameter. A rath is an early medieval enclosed farmstead, typically ringed by one or more earthen banks and ditches to define a household's territory and provide some degree of security for livestock. Here, two banks and an intervening fosse, that is, a ditch dug between them, once formed that enclosure, and the southern arc is where the earthworks are best preserved, still readable as a slight rise and fall in the ground.

The rest has not fared well. Land clearance has disturbed the enclosing elements from the south-south-west, around through the west and north, and a drain has cut into the circuit between the south-east and south. These are common fates for ringforts across Ireland, where centuries of agricultural improvement, drainage schemes, and field consolidation have quietly erased thousands of such sites. The inventory compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra, and Paul Gosling for County Galway, published in 1999, records the site as very poorly preserved, which is an understated way of describing something that has been largely reclaimed by the ordinary work of farming. What remains is less a monument than a trace, the kind of feature that rewards someone who already knows what they are looking for, and who is willing to read a landscape rather than simply look at it.