The trees have colonised the interior so thoroughly that the earthwork beneath them reads more as woodland than as archaeology, a circumstance that makes the enclosing bank and ditch all the more striking once you notice them at the perimeter.

A rath, sometimes called a ringfort, is a roughly circular enclosure defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches, typically dating from the early medieval period and associated with a single farmstead or small family settlement. This example is modest in scale, with a diameter of approximately thirty metres. The bank survives to an internal height of around 0.75 metres and an external height of 1.8 metres, the difference reflecting the way the material was thrown outward from the digging of the fosse, the external ditch, which runs from the north-west around to the east-south-east and reaches a depth of one metre and a width of just over a metre. Along the southern arc the bank is best preserved, retaining something close to its original profile. A dry-stone wall, standing to about 0.45 metres on the outer edge of the fosse, follows the same north-west to east-south-east line, suggesting a later effort to define or reinforce the boundary for agricultural purposes. The site was recorded by Denis Power and uploaded in August 2011.

The rath sits on flat, open pasture, which means the earthworks are relatively easy to read once you are standing beside them, without the distraction of slope or heavy surface vegetation at the edges. Two passages skirt the enclosure to the south-west: one older and now disused, one more recently constructed, both likely the result of the landowner routing movement around rather than through the monument. The interior, densely planted with mature conifers and thick scrub at the centre, is largely impenetrable, so the experience of this site is really about the outer circuit, the profile of the bank, and the slight but clear depression of the fosse. Walking the southern arc, where the earthwork is at its most complete, gives the clearest sense of how deliberate and considered this enclosure once was.