Just 120 metres to the south-southeast stands a local church, creating a centuries-old pairing of secular and religious structures that’s common throughout the Irish landscape.

The main enclosure forms a rough rectangle measuring 33 metres north to south and 27 metres east to west. Its defensive earthworks, though weathered by time, still trace the original fortification’s outline; a bank that once stood proud now survives mainly as a scarp about 80 centimetres high on its outer face, accompanied by an outer defensive ditch or fosse that’s roughly 3 metres wide at its top. What appears to be an original entrance gap, about 4 metres wide, breaks the northern perimeter, offering a glimpse of how people would have accessed this defended space centuries ago.

A curious semi-circular annexe extends from the southern side of the fort, adding another 18 by 20 metres of enclosed space defined by a low earthen bank. This secondary enclosure has its own traces of an outer fosse that connects with the main fort’s southwestern corner, suggesting a planned expansion or specialised area within the larger complex. Historical Ordnance Survey mapping from 1840 depicts the site as an oval-shaped enclosure, showing how Victorian cartographers interpreted these ancient earthworks before modern archaeological methods could reveal their true complexity.