The site consists of an oval earthen enclosure measuring roughly 63 metres across in both directions, formed by a double bank system that has weathered centuries of Irish seasons. Just 100 metres to the southeast stands a castle, suggesting this earthwork may have played a supporting role in the area’s medieval defences.

The enclosure’s most distinctive feature is its double bank construction, with an inner and outer rampart separated by a flat, berm-like space. The inner bank shows traces of stone facing in places, particularly along its eastern and southeastern sections where it’s best preserved. The outer bank, built from earth and stone, has deteriorated more significantly over time, especially on the northern side where it’s been reduced to a mere scarp. The western and northwestern perimeter follows an old townland boundary marked by a wall and hedge, whilst the site appears open to the northwest; a configuration that has puzzled historians since its first mapping in 1837.

The interior tells its own story of human activity through the ages. The ground slopes steeply on its eastern side and bears the marks of various disturbances, visible as irregular scarps and hollows particularly in the northwest and southeast sections. Old cultivation ridges running northeast to southwest across the southern quadrant reveal that this defensive structure was later repurposed for agriculture, a common fate for many of Ireland’s ancient monuments. First recorded on the 1837 Ordnance Survey map as a circular earthwork, and later depicted in 1913 as slightly penannular in shape, this site continues to intrigue archaeologists studying medieval fortifications in the Irish midlands.