The earthwork is so worn down that a significant stretch of its enclosing bank, from the south-west to the west-north-west, has left no trace whatsoever at ground level. Roads and field boundaries have since cut across it at two separate points. What survives is a subcircular outline measuring around 36 metres east to west, the ghost of what was once a functioning rath.

A rath is a type of ringfort, typically an enclosed farmstead of the early medieval period, defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches. They are among the most common archaeological monument types in Ireland, yet individually they are easily lost to agriculture, development, and the slow work of time. This particular example is recorded locally as Gleesons Fort, a name that appears in Neary's 1914 catalogue of the area's antiquities. The vernacular name is a reminder that even heavily degraded monuments are not necessarily forgotten; local memory has a way of preserving a place-name long after the physical fabric has crumbled or been ploughed away. The monument is substantial enough that it straddles more than one Ordnance Survey sheet, extending beyond the immediate townland boundary.

Visitors looking for a dramatic mound or a clear circular earthwork will find little reward here. What the site offers instead is the quieter experience of reading a landscape for absences, tracing a monument more through what has been removed or eroded than through what remains upright. The bank is most legible on the northern and eastern sides, where it has not been cut by later infrastructure.