Most raths, the earthen ringforts that served as enclosed farmsteads throughout early medieval Ireland, are single-banked affairs. This one is bivallate, meaning it was encircled by two concentric banks with a fosse, a ditch, between them, an arrangement that suggests either a household of some standing or a community with particular reasons to reinforce its boundaries.

The inner bank is the more substantial of the two, rising to 3.15 metres on its outer face and incorporating a significant amount of stone into what is otherwise an earthen construction. The outer bank and its accompanying fosse survive only in the south-western sector of the monument, their former extent now traced by modern field boundaries that have, over time, absorbed or obscured what remained elsewhere. The interior measures roughly 28 metres north to south and 31 metres east to west, a generous enclosure by any measure. On the eastern side, a gap of around 2 metres marks what may have been the original entrance, with an upright slab still standing on its southern flank. When Ua Riain visited the site in 1927, he recorded the remains of several poorly preserved buildings within the enclosure. None of those are visible today, which is itself a small piece of information: whatever stood here, whether in timber or stone, has long since levelled into the grass.