Ringforts, known in Irish as raths, were enclosed farmsteads, typically circular earthworks consisting of a raised bank and an accompanying ditch, or fosse, used as domestic settlements throughout the early medieval period. What makes this particular site quietly compelling is the way its natural and human-made boundaries seem almost inseparable: the river itself did much of the defensive work, wrapping around the promontory on the north-west, north, and north-east, while an earthen bank and fosse closed off the more exposed southern end.

The site was recorded as a clearly defined hachured circular enclosure on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1842, which suggests it was still legible as a distinct earthwork at that point. By the time the equivalent map was produced in 1935, the area was shown as forested, a change that would have accelerated both the concealment and the gradual erosion of whatever earthworks remained. Today, only slight traces survive: a shallow fosse curving roughly east to west across the southern end of the promontory, running to approximately 28.4 metres before dropping over the edge of the river cliff. A small depression to the north of the site, measuring roughly 2.2 metres by 1.4 metres and just 0.3 metres deep, has been tentatively identified as either a souterrain, an underground passage or chamber commonly associated with ringforts and used for storage or refuge, or simply a hollow left by a long-gone tree root. The ambiguity is typical of sites this worn: the archaeology refuses to be definitive.