It is a rath, a type of earthen ringfort used in early medieval Ireland as a defended farmstead or settlement, and this one has held up remarkably well. Two banks survive, separated by a fosse, which is the ditch dug between them to heighten the defensive effect of the earthworks. The outer bank has been partly obscured by a field wall built across it at some later point, a common enough fate for ancient earthworks pressed into service by subsequent generations of farmers, but the core of the site is largely intact. The diameter runs to around 38 metres, placing it within the normal range for raths of its type.

The more intriguing detail lies inside. In the south-western quadrant of the interior, there is a rectangular hollow, roughly 13 metres long and just under 3 metres wide, its long axis oriented north to south. It may be a souterrain, an underground stone-lined passage or chamber associated with early medieval settlements, typically used for storage or as a place of refuge. Souterrains are frequently found within raths across Ireland, though they are not always easy to identify from surface evidence alone, and the hollow here is classified only as a possibility rather than a confirmed example. A gap on the south-eastern side of the enclosure may represent the original entrance, though again this remains uncertain. What the site does offer clearly, without ambiguity, is an unusually well-preserved set of earthworks in a landscape that has otherwise moved on around them.