The enclosure measures roughly 30 metres north to south and 27 metres east to west, which would once have made it a respectable example of a rath, the most common type of early medieval farmstead in Ireland, typically consisting of a raised earthen bank enclosing a domestic settlement. Here, though, the bank survives only along the north-east to south-east arc; everywhere else the boundary has collapsed into a barely legible scarp in the grassland. The townland boundary compounds the indignity by cutting directly through the monument at both the north-west and north-east.

What makes this site quietly interesting is the gap between what can be seen now and what was recorded over a century ago. In 1914, a researcher named Neary documented a second, outer bank at the site, describing it as "ravelled" but reinforced with stone, suggesting it had once been a more substantial feature. By the time systematic survey work caught up with the site, no surface trace of that outer bank remained. The loss of a stone-reinforced element without any record of deliberate removal points to the slow attrition that affects unprotected earthworks across the Irish countryside, cleared for grazing or simply absorbed into the ground over generations. A second ringfort lies approximately 270 metres to the south-east, hinting that this was once a more densely settled corner of the hillside than the present emptiness suggests.