A rath, the Irish term for a roughly circular earthwork enclosure typically dating from the early medieval period, was once a common feature of the Irish farming landscape, used as a defended homestead or farmstead enclosure. This one, sitting on a gentle rise in undulating grassland in north County Galway, has been worn down to the point where only fragments of its original shape can be read in the land.

The enclosure measures about 37 metres in diameter. On the south-western to north-western arc, a low bank still traces the old perimeter, but elsewhere the enclosing element has degraded into little more than a scarp, a slight drop in ground level rather than any raised feature. A field boundary, of a much later date, has been laid directly over the southern to south-western section, which is a common enough fate for these sites across Ireland, the old earthwork quietly absorbed into the working geometry of a later agricultural landscape. A gap on the western side may represent the original entrance, though the degree of degradation makes certainty difficult.

The site is not one that announces itself. The surviving earthworks require some patience to read, and the overlying field boundary adds a further layer of visual confusion. What remains is less a monument than a faint crease in the ground, legible mainly to those already looking for it.