A rath is an early medieval enclosure, typically of earthen construction, that would originally have enclosed a farmstead and its inhabitants. This one survives as a raised central platform, a surrounding fosse (a ditch, in this case with a base width of around three metres), and an outer bank beyond that. The entrance, a causewayed gap roughly four metres wide, is still visible on the eastern side, though cattle gaps have also been punched through the earthworks at various points over the years.

The rath was already recorded on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1840, where it appears marked with hachures, the fine radiating lines cartographers of that era used to indicate raised or banked features in the landscape. By 1996 it had been catalogued in the Record of Monuments and Places simply as an enclosure. The field boundary that bisects it runs from the northwest to the northeast, and to the north of that line there is now no visible trace of the original earthwork at all. What remains to the south is overgrown with nettles, rushes, and reeds, the interior sloping gently downhill, and the fosse heavily obscured by vegetation. The overall dimensions suggest a modest but well-defined enclosure, the platform measuring roughly 23 metres along one axis and just under 20 metres along the other.

The site sits at the summit of a hill in pasture, and the views it commands to the south and southwest give some sense of why whoever built it chose this particular rise. Visibility and situation mattered to the people who constructed raths; being seen, and being able to see, were both part of the point. The earthworks themselves now require a careful eye to read, particularly along the northern edge where the boundary wall has erased what once completed the circle.