Thousands of these ringforts once dotted the Irish countryside, their earth banks defining the boundary of a family's living space, keeping livestock in and unwanted visitors out. This particular example has not fared especially well against the passage of time and the pressures of the land around it.

The rath is subcircular in plan, measuring roughly 31 metres along its northeast to southwest axis, and what survives is largely a bank that traces an incomplete ring across the hillside. The monument has taken damage from more than one direction. Quarrying has eaten into the northwestern edge, removing material that would have formed part of the original enclosure, and several breaks in the surviving bank appear to be of relatively recent origin rather than the slow erosion of centuries. What remains is enough to read the shape of the place, but only just.