What looks at first like a gentle irregularity in the ground resolves, on closer inspection, into a deliberately shaped enclosure: a roughly circular area measuring 32 metres north to south and 30 metres east to west, defined by a scarped edge and an outer fosse. A rath, or ringfort, is an enclosed settlement of the early medieval period, typically dating from somewhere between the sixth and tenth centuries, built by a farming family as a combination of homestead and status marker. Thousands once dotted the Irish landscape; many have been ploughed away or built over, which is part of what makes the survivors worth pausing over.

The earthwork was recorded and compiled by Denis Power, with notes uploaded in August 2011. The enclosure sits on a north-west-facing slope, and the scarped edge, essentially a cut or shaped bank where the ground has been worked down to define the boundary, survives to a height of around 0.3 metres and a width of roughly 1.6 metres. An external fosse, a shallow ditch running around the outside of the scarp, adds a further defensive or demarcating element, though at 0.1 metres deep it is now very slight. The best-preserved and highest stretch of the scarp runs from the south-west around to the north-west, suggesting that weathering and agricultural activity have taken a greater toll on other sections. Across the fosse on the eastern side, a causeway three metres wide marks what would have been the original entrance, a detail that helps orientate the whole structure and gives a sense of how people once moved in and out of this small, ordered world.

The interior slopes gently downward from the centre toward the top of the scarp and is currently under pasture, so there is nothing to impede a slow walk around the site, though the subtlety of the earthwork means it is easy to underestimate what you are looking at until you stand at the eastern causeway and look back across the enclosure. The fosse in particular is shallow enough that it could pass unnoticed without the context of knowing it is there. The scarp is clearest on the south-western to north-western arc, so approaching from that side offers the strongest impression of the original form. No public facilities are associated with the site, and access would depend on the usual courtesies of asking landowners, as the land remains working agricultural ground.