The interior has been heavily quarried, leaving little of what would once have been enclosed ground, and a stone field boundary cuts straight across the northern section as though the monument were simply another inconvenient feature of the landscape to be managed around. It sits in pasture, with a turlough, a seasonally flooding lake typical of the limestone karst country of the west of Ireland, lying to the south and a ridge rising to the west.

The earthwork itself is oval in plan, measuring roughly 72 metres north to south and 48 metres east to west. It follows the classic rath form: a ringfort, or rath, is a roughly circular enclosed farmstead of the early medieval period, typically defended by one or more earthen banks with a ditch, known as a fosse, dug between them. Here two banks survive, with the inner one still standing to about 1.1 metres in height, though it has been levelled along the southeastern to southern arc. The outer bank, at around 0.5 metres, has fared worse and is largely gone from the northern to southern stretch. An archaeological survey of the Ballinrobe district compiled by D. Lavelle in 1994 recorded the site in this condition, suggesting the damage is long-standing rather than recent.