The earthen enclosure sits on a gentle south-south-east-facing slope, now given over to pasture, and its circular form is still clearly legible: roughly 29 metres across in both directions, enclosed by an earthen bank that rises about 1.3 metres both inside and out. A ringfort of this type, known as a rath, was the standard farmstead of early medieval Ireland, typically home to a single family of some local standing, the bank and its accompanying ditch providing a modest but meaningful boundary against livestock, neighbours, and the general uncertainties of rural life.

What makes this particular example quietly interesting is the layering of time visible within it. The interior and the bank itself are partially overgrown, and the stumps of coniferous trees remain from a period when the enclosure was planted with conifers, a fate that befell many ringforts during the twentieth century when forestry schemes swept across marginal agricultural land. That planting is now gone, but its traces linger in the broken ground and root stumps inside the bank. The external fosse, a shallow ditch originally dug to throw up material for the bank, runs around the northern to north-western arc of the site and reaches a depth of around 0.4 metres. Along the eastern side, a stream has found its way into the line of the fosse, following the old cut as a convenient channel, which gives the site an oddly living quality, the ancient earthwork still quietly shaping the movement of water across the slope.