The fence line runs roughly north-north-east to south-south-west across the interior, a detail captured even on the 1842 Ordnance Survey six-inch map, which means the division was already well established by the time the first systematic mapping of Ireland was under way. The ringfort, known in Irish as a rath, is a type of enclosed farmstead common across early medieval Ireland, typically defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches and used as a defended homestead rather than a military fortification.

What survives here is partial but legible. The enclosure measures roughly thirty metres in diameter, and an arc of earth and stone bank, standing to about 0.9 metres in height, still runs from the south-south-west around to the north along the western side of that dividing field boundary. Beyond that, the bank has been levelled, and a researcher named Hartnett, associated with University College Cork, noted that only a faint outline of the rampart remains in the eastern half. A well survives in the north-west quarter of the interior, a detail that reinforces how these enclosures functioned as complete domestic units, with water supply contained within the protected area. The combination of partial levelling, a bisecting fence, and the persistence of that low curving bank on the west gives the site an quality of incompleteness that is itself historically telling, each phase of agricultural reuse leaving its mark on what came before.