A ringfort, or rath, is a roughly circular enclosure defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches, built throughout early medieval Ireland as a farmstead and centre of family life. This one is substantial: nearly 59 metres north to south and just under 56 metres east to west, enclosed by a bank that still stands over a metre high both internally and externally, with an outer fosse, or ditch, a metre deep running alongside it. The interior surface is uneven, terraced in places where the builders compensated for the natural gradient of the hill.

What makes this site particularly interesting is a detail recorded by Bowman in 1934: the remains of a church site within the interior of the ringfort. The association between early ecclesiastical foundations and pre-existing ringfort enclosures is not unusual in Ireland; monastic and church communities sometimes reused or built within older secular enclosures, making these layered sites among the more complex in the landscape. The earthen bank has been incorporated into the surrounding field fence system along the western and northern arc, and there are cattle gaps cut through to the south-west and west, reflecting centuries of agricultural use that have reshaped but not erased the original form. Two breaks in the bank, one to the north-east at about 4.3 metres wide and a narrower one to the east-south-east, likely reflect later modifications rather than original entrances. A second ringfort lies approximately 20 metres to the south-south-east, suggesting this was once a more densely settled part of the valley than its present pastoral quiet might suggest.