What makes it quietly odd is the number of ways in and out: two fairly wide breaks in the bank to the ESE and SE, and two narrower gaps worn through to the south and WNW. A ringfort, or rath, was typically a single-entrance enclosure, the bank and its outer ditch serving as a boundary marker and a modest defensive barrier around a farmstead. Four openings, some of them clearly the result of long, repeated passage rather than deliberate construction, suggest a site that has been casually pressed into agricultural service for centuries, its original logic gradually overwritten by the needs of livestock and farm traffic.

The enclosing bank stands only about 0.4 metres above the interior, a modest rise that would once have been made more prominent by a line of trees planted along its crest. The stumps of those trees remain. On the outer side, a fosse, a shallow ditch dug to provide the material for the bank, survives around the western and northern arc, reaching a depth of just over a metre at its deepest point. The interior is not level: it drops steeply from the north-west bank down towards the centre, then levels off into a gentler slope towards the south-east. To the north-east, the ringfort is overlooked by Carrigadoon, a neighbouring site on higher ground, the two forming part of a landscape that was clearly organised and inhabited well before any written record of it survives.