On a south-facing slope rising out of County Galway grassland, a subcircular rath, roughly 45 metres across on its longer axis, persists as little more than a faint depression and a softened earthen edge. A rath is an early medieval enclosed farmstead, typically formed by one or more circular earthen banks with an outer ditch, and in its day would have sheltered a family, their livestock, and perhaps a cluster of timber buildings. Here, centuries of farming and weather have reduced that enclosure to a degraded scarp and a partially surviving fosse, which is the outer ditch designed to define and defend the perimeter.

The monument was noted as early as 1914, when it appeared in Neary's survey as entry number 44. By that point, the visible remains were already fragmentary. The scarp, the inner sloped edge of the original bank, can still be traced from the north-east around through the south to the west-south-west, and the fosse holds its line from the east through the south to the south-west. A later field bank cuts straight through the monument at two points, entering from the east-south-east and exiting at the west-south-west, which suggests the land was absorbed into ordinary agricultural use at some point after the site fell out of its original function. Directly abutting the scarp at the south-west is a second recorded feature, catalogued separately, whose proximity hints that this small rise may have accumulated significance across different periods.