What survives is a barely perceptible rise along the southern edge of what was once an enclosure, the kind of subtle undulation that most walkers would step across without a second thought.

The first edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map recorded the site as an irregularly shaped enclosure, roughly 45 metres by 40 metres, already partially cut through by a field boundary at both its north-western and north-eastern edges. A ringfort, in its original form, would have been a roughly circular earthen enclosure used as a farmstead, typically dating to the early medieval period between around 500 and 1000 AD. Thousands survive across Ireland in varying states of preservation, but this one has fared poorly. Later agricultural activity, most visibly that intrusive field boundary, has obscured or destroyed much of the circuit. About 80 metres to the north-north-west, a second earthwork once lay in the same landscape, suggesting this corner of north Galway held at least a small cluster of early settlement features, though that neighbouring site is recorded separately and its condition is no better documented than this one.