The circular earthwork, a rath, sits on a gentle south-facing slope, its presence registered more by a low scarped bank than by any dramatic mounding. A rath is essentially a ringfort, a defended farmstead of early medieval Ireland typically enclosed by one or more earthen banks and ditches, and thousands of them survive across the country in varying states of repair. This one has survived, but only partially.

The enclosure was originally roughly circular, measuring 46.6 metres north to south, defined by a scarped edge around 0.75 metres high and six metres wide. At some point, agricultural activity removed a significant section of both the scarp and the interior on the northeastern to southeastern arc, reducing the east-west interior measurement to 35.2 metres. The damage is compounded by a few additional intrusions: a small drainage channel cuts across the scarp at the southeast, a field boundary runs along the base of the scarp on the south-southwestern side, and an ESB pole has been planted just a metre back from the top of the scarp on the west-northwestern edge. These are the ordinary pressures of a working landscape, accumulated over generations. A dump of field-clearance material sits immediately outside the site to the southeast, the kind of casual encroachment that quietly narrows what remains. The site was recorded by Denis Power and uploaded to the national record in August 2011.

The surviving interior is level, dry, and free of overgrowth, which makes it relatively easy to read on the ground once you know what you are looking at. The south-facing slope means the site catches reasonable light through much of the day, and the surrounding undulating pasture gives a fair sense of the agricultural setting in which whoever built and occupied this enclosure would have lived. The partial removal of the northeastern to southeastern section is clearly visible as an abrupt flattening of the circuit, and tracing the surviving scarp around its complete arc gives a reasonable impression of the original scale of the enclosure.