This earthen fortification, measuring approximately 24 metres across its interior, consists of a subcircular bank that still rises up to 1.75 metres high in places, though modern field boundaries have encroached upon much of the structure. The fort’s defensive features include an external fosse, or ditch, nearly 4 metres wide, and traces of an outer earthen bank; classic elements of these fortified farmsteads that once dotted the Irish countryside.

The ringfort’s entrance appears to have been positioned on the east-northeast side, where a 1.4 metre gap in the inner bank aligns with what may be a causeway crossing the defensive ditch. This careful positioning on the crest of a drumlin would have given the fort’s inhabitants commanding views across the surrounding pastureland, whilst the marshy ground nearby would have provided additional natural defence. Such sites typically date from the early medieval period, roughly 500 to 1200 CE, when they served as protected homesteads for farming families of varying social status.

Archaeological testing carried out in 2004 on adjacent land revealed no artefacts or features extending beyond the visible earthworks, suggesting the main archaeological remains are confined to the ringfort itself. Listed as SMR 92:9 in Donegal’s archaeological records, this monument forms part of an estimated 45,000 ringforts across Ireland, though many have been lost to agricultural improvement and development. Its survival, even in partial form, provides tangible evidence of how people lived, farmed, and defended themselves in early medieval Donegal.