Ringforts, the enclosed farmsteads of early medieval Ireland typically defined by one or more earthen or stone banks, are among the most common archaeological monuments in the country, yet each one carries its own particular logic of place. Here, the Cooleen River wraps around the western and southern flanks, a stream marks the eastern edge, and the ground falls away to offer clear sightlines in every direction.

The site survives as a roughly oval raised platform, measuring just over fifteen metres north to south and nineteen metres east to west, elevated about a metre above the surrounding pasture. A low earth and stone bank runs from the south around to the north-west, with a level berm, a flat ledge or terrace running around the outside of the enclosure, preserved at the north-west and south-east. Intermittent stone facing along the outer edge of the platform suggests that the original construction was more formally revetted than what survives today. What gives the interior particular interest are two features that may represent the ghost outlines of former buildings: a subrectangular mound near the centre, and a C-shaped bank abutting the main enclosure wall in the south-west quadrant. The site was recorded on Ordnance Survey six-inch maps in both 1840 and 1916, marked with the hachured symbol used to denote earthwork monuments, which means it has been a visible and acknowledged feature of the landscape for at least two centuries of modern cartography.