What gives it away, to anyone who knows what to look for, is the low but unmistakable ring of an earth-and-stone bank, roughly twenty metres across, that has been doing its best to persist through centuries of agricultural pressure. This is a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, the most common type of early medieval settlement monument in Ireland. These enclosures, typically dating from roughly the fifth to the twelfth century, once served as farmsteads for individual families, the bank and any accompanying ditch offering a degree of protection for people and livestock rather than any serious military fortification.

The site was recorded and compiled by Denis Power, with notes uploaded in August 2011. The bank survives to an internal height of around 0.3 metres and an external height of 0.55 metres, meaning it reads more clearly from the outside than from within. Its best-preserved section lies to the west. Elsewhere the monument has fared less well: cattle have worn the eastern edge down to a scarped, sloping face, and the bank on the south-east and south-west sides has been folded into the surrounding field boundary system, which is a common fate for ringforts that remained useful as enclosure boundaries long after their original purpose was forgotten. Loose stone litters the interior, and further stone has been dumped against the outer face at the north-north-west, probably cleared from the field at various points and left there as a matter of convenience.

The site sits on a south-west-facing slope in pasture, which means the ground underfoot is likely to be soft in wetter months. The interior, though level, is described as heavily overgrown with dense vegetation, so the earthwork's full extent is easier to read from the outside, particularly from the west where the bank retains the most definition. Those visiting would do well to walk the perimeter first rather than wade directly into the interior. Because the bank has been incorporated into active field boundaries, access and visibility will depend on the farming calendar and the condition of surrounding hedgerows. As with most field monuments of this kind, the most productive approach is simply patience: taking time to trace the curve of the bank and distinguish what belongs to the original structure from what has accumulated around it over the years.