What makes it worth a second glance is the layering of its defences: not simply a bank and a ditch, but a full counterscarp bank on the outer side, running from south-south-west to north-west, which adds a second ridge of earth beyond the fosse. A rath, to give the term its due, is an early medieval Irish farmstead enclosed by one or more earthen banks, the home of a farming family of some local standing rather than a military fortification in any grand sense. Here, the outer fosse, though now shallow at roughly a quarter of a metre deep and just over a metre wide, would once have presented a more deliberate obstacle, and the counterscarp bank would have reinforced that boundary further.

The site was recorded by Denis Power and uploaded to the archaeological survey record in August 2011. Its dimensions are reasonably precise: approximately 34 metres north to south and 35 metres east to west, making it a near-perfect circle of enclosed ground. The main bank stands at 1.3 metres on its exterior face, dropping to half a metre on the interior. One section of the counterscarp bank has been absorbed into a later field boundary running roughly north-north-east to south-south-west, which is a common fate for prehistoric and early medieval earthworks; farmers across the centuries found existing ridges of earth perfectly convenient for marking out their own divisions. A gap of around three metres in the bank at the north-north-east may represent the original entrance, though it could equally reflect later disturbance.

The rath sits on a west-facing slope, currently under pasture with some scrub beginning to encroach on the interior. The level interior is typical of the type, the enclosed ground having been kept clear and usable in antiquity. Visitors approaching on foot should expect fairly ordinary farmland conditions, with no formal path or signage. The earthworks are most legible in low winter or early spring light, when shadows thrown by the bank and the outer fosse define the circuit more clearly against the grass. Looking back westward from the interior gives a sense of why a slope like this was chosen; the elevated position, modest though it is, commands an open view across the surrounding countryside.