The raised area measures thirty-six metres across and is defined by an earthen bank that stands taller on the outside, where it reaches nearly one and a half metres, than on the interior, where it rises only about sixty centimetres. This is a rath, the most common type of early medieval ringfort in Ireland, a form of enclosed farmstead typically built between roughly 500 and 1000 AD to house a family and their livestock within a defended perimeter.

What makes this particular example quietly interesting is the way it reveals itself in layers, some visible, some only legible to those who know what to look for. A band of darker grass circling the outer edge of the bank marks the ghost of a fosse, the surrounding ditch that would originally have reinforced the enclosure's defences. The ditch itself has silted and levelled over time, but the difference in soil moisture or nutrients it left behind still registers in the colour of the grass above it. An outer bank was also recorded here, noted by a researcher named Hartnett in 1939, but no surface trace of it survives today, and modern fencing has been run across the area where it once stood. The field boundaries that once surrounded the site have also been removed, leaving the rath sitting in open pasture, slightly isolated from the agricultural patchwork that would have once framed it.