The site is a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort enclosed by an earthen bank rather than stone, and it represents the most common form of early medieval settlement in Ireland, typically associated with a farming family of some local standing. This particular example is nearly circular, measuring 32 metres east to west and 31 metres north to south. The enclosing bank still stands to an internal height of 1.7 metres in places, and outside it runs a fosse, a defensive ditch, reaching a depth of 1.35 metres along the arc from the north-east to the south-south-west. The entrance gap, 3.6 metres wide, faces west-south-west, a common orientation in Irish ringforts that some researchers connect to practical considerations of prevailing wind and livestock management. Perhaps the most intriguing feature lies in the north-east quadrant of the interior: a souterrain, an underground stone-lined passage or chamber built by the original inhabitants, likely used for cool storage of dairy produce or as a place of refuge in times of danger. A field boundary now skirts the enclosure to the south-east, a sign of how later farming activity has worked around the monument rather than through it, leaving the earthworks relatively undisturbed on their west-south-west-facing slope.