The enclosure is roughly forty-five metres from north to south and forty-one metres east to west, its boundary formed by a heavily overgrown earthen bank still standing around 1.6 metres high. Outside that bank runs a fosse, a defensive ditch, shallow now at around 0.4 metres deep but still traceable around most of the circuit. A rath of this kind was typically the enclosed farmstead of an early medieval Irish family of some local standing, the bank and ditch serving as much to define ownership and contain livestock as to provide serious military defence. Thousands were built across Ireland between roughly the fifth and twelfth centuries, yet each one represents a specific household, a specific decision about where to settle and how to mark that ground.

What gives this particular example a little extra texture is its entrance. On the eastern side, a gap 3.2 metres wide breaks the bank, and a causeway carries the threshold across the fosse. Orientating an entrance to the east was common in rath construction, thought by some scholars to reflect both practical considerations, catching the morning light and avoiding prevailing westerly weather, and possibly ritual ones. To the south of the enclosure, a large depression interrupts the fosse, which may point to later disturbance or simply to centuries of agricultural activity pressing in around the edges. The site was recorded as part of a local archaeological survey of the Ballinrobe district, including the areas around Lough Mask and Lough Carra, published in 1994.