What makes it worth pausing over is not grandeur but persistence: the form of the monument, a rath or earthen ringfort, is essentially that of an enclosed farmstead from early medieval Ireland, and this one has survived well enough to read, even if the people who built it left no names behind.

Raths were the most common settlement type in early medieval Ireland, typically consisting of a raised earthen bank enclosing a circular or subcircular area where a family and their animals would have lived. This example measures roughly 35 metres on its northwest to southeast axis and 34 metres northeast to southwest, making it a fairly typical single-enclosure example. A possible entrance gap survives at the southern side. More intriguing is a short earthen bank, just under three metres long, that radiates outward from the monument at the south-southwest. Features like this are occasionally interpreted as remnants of an associated enclosure or field boundary, though their precise function is not always clear. The monument is recorded as being in fair condition, which, given how many comparable earthworks across Ireland have been levelled by ploughing or development, places it among the more fortunate survivors of its kind.