This earthwork monument consists of a raised oval platform, measuring approximately 33 metres north to south and 25 metres east to west, which would have once supported timber buildings and palisades. The platform is encircled by what remains of an earthen and stone bank, now mostly reduced to a scarp, alongside a round-bottomed defensive ditch and traces of an outer bank that once stood nearly 14 metres wide.

The castle’s defensive features, whilst weathered by centuries, still tell their story. The inner bank, originally rising up to 2.7 metres on its exterior face, surrounds a fosse or defensive ditch that’s roughly 4.5 metres wide and 0.6 metres deep. A possible entrance can be identified in the southeast quadrant where the scarp shows signs of erosion across a 5-metre span, though curiously there’s no corresponding causeway across the ditch, suggesting the original access arrangements may have been more complex. The monument sits just 30 metres east of a river flowing north to south, which would have provided both a water source and additional natural defence for the castle’s western approaches.

Time and human intervention have left their marks on this ringwork. According to local knowledge, levelling work carried out in the 1950s flattened portions of the outer bank, particularly visible in the western and northwestern sections. More recently, a hedgerow has been planted along the base of the outer bank through the eastern, southeastern and southern sectors, adding a touch of modern agricultural boundary to this medieval military earthwork. Despite these alterations, the monument remains an evocative reminder of Norman influence in medieval Ireland, when such ringworks served as fortified residences and administrative centres across the countryside.