A rath, as this type of monument is known, is an early medieval enclosure, typically dating from roughly 500 to 1000 AD, built as a farmstead for a single family or small household. The bank here is modest but measurable, rising about a metre on the interior side and slightly more, at 1.2 metres, on the exterior, enclosing a roughly circular area some 24.5 metres north to south and 23 metres east to west.

What makes this particular example quietly interesting is the evidence of its layered afterlife. Stone facing still survives at the base of the inner bank face to the south-east, suggesting the earthen bank was originally reinforced or dressed with stone, a detail that speaks to the effort invested in its original construction. To the west-northwest, the bank has been absorbed wholesale into the field fence system, which is a fate common to many raths across Ireland, where farmers found a ready-made boundary and simply extended it into their own working landscape. Two gaps interrupt the circuit, one to the east-northeast at 4.6 metres wide and another to the east-southeast at 4 metres, which may represent original entranceways or later breaks made to ease access. The interior and the bank itself have since been planted with coniferous trees, which both obscures the monument and, in a strange way, preserves it from the plough.