The rath here is notably well-preserved, its roughly circular outline measuring about 29.5 metres east to west and 28 metres north to south, defined by an earthen bank and, along the southern arc, a scarp, a natural or cut slope that reinforces the enclosure's edge.

A rath is an early medieval farmstead enclosure, typically dating from roughly the sixth to the twelfth century, in which a bank and ditch marked the boundary of a family's dwelling and working space. What makes this particular example of more than passing interest is the presence of a cist burial grave within the interior, recorded in the site notes as a CBG, meaning a cist burial grave, a stone-lined or stone-covered grave that can predate the ringfort itself by a considerable margin. This overlap of burial and habitation, where Bronze Age or earlier funerary remains sit inside what became a later farmstead enclosure, is not unique in Ireland but it is always suggestive of long, layered use of the same ground. The site was noted by Neary as far back as 1914, and its condition has remained good enough to warrant description as well-preserved more than a century later.