What makes this rath, a type of enclosed circular or oval farmstead used throughout early medieval Ireland, quietly odd is what it became after its original purpose faded. Local tradition holds that the enclosure was used as a burial ground, a repurposing that was not unusual in rural Ireland, where ancient enclosures carried an ambiguous sacred charge long after the communities that built them had gone.

The rath first appears on the 1838 Ordnance Survey six-inch map, though it was omitted from later editions, suggesting it had already degraded considerably by the mid-nineteenth century. The enclosure measures roughly 34 metres east to west and 30.5 metres north to south. Its defining feature is a scarp, an abrupt slope cut into the ground, rather than a fully preserved earthen bank; where the scarp survives best, on the eastern and southern arc, it rises to about 1.5 metres with a pronounced outward slope. On the southwestern to northwestern side it has been largely levelled, and a drystone field wall was built directly over it at some point. On the northern side the scarp merges almost invisibly into the steep natural slope of the ridge itself. A fosse, the defensive ditch that typically ran outside such an enclosure, is clearly visible on the southeastern to southern arc, about three metres wide and half a metre deep, but elsewhere it fades to a faint depression traceable only by a change in vegetation. Inside, the ground tilts downward toward the southeast, following the natural contours of the ridge. Traces of later field walls cross the interior, now reduced to low, sod-covered stony lines barely distinguishable from the surrounding pasture. Along the southern scarp, a row of stunted hawthorn trees grows, and the slight raised lip at the top of the scarp in this section may be a remnant of an original enclosing bank, or may simply reflect root disturbance from the trees over centuries.