What makes it worth pausing over is its scale: the enclosure measures roughly 77.5 metres on its north-east to south-west axis and 65 metres across, making it considerably larger than the ring forts, or raths, that dot the Irish countryside. These earthen enclosures, typically defined by one or more raised banks and internal ditches, are among the most common monument types in Ireland, generally associated with early medieval settlement and farming. This one is defined by a single earthen bank, on which a scatter of hawthorn bushes has taken hold over the centuries.

The enclosure is in fair condition, though it has not escaped the pressures of the surrounding working landscape. A field fence overlies the bank from the south around to the west-south-west, folding the ancient boundary into the more recent logic of agricultural division. More significantly, quarrying has eaten into the monument at the north, east, and south-east, removing sections of the bank and presumably whatever lay beneath them in those areas. Inside the enclosure, a further earthen bank running north-east to south-west across the interior appears to represent an associated internal division, suggesting the space was at some point organised into distinct zones, perhaps separating livestock from a domestic area, or reflecting different phases of use over time.