It is well-preserved beneath the overgrowth, which is part of what makes it quietly odd: a structure that has survived remarkably intact yet is almost entirely obscured by the density of what has grown over and around it.

The site is a rath, the most common type of Irish ringfort, typically consisting of a circular area enclosed by an earthen bank and used as a farmstead during the early medieval period, roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries. This one measures 32.5 metres in diameter and follows the classic defensive arrangement: an inner scarp, an intervening fosse (a dry ditch), and an outer bank. An entrance gap opens at the east-south-east, which is the direction many Irish ringforts favour, possibly for practical reasons related to prevailing wind or morning light. Inside the enclosure, a number of hollows are visible in the ground, and a low bank measuring 4.2 metres at the north-north-west is thought to be upcast material from quarrying, suggesting the site was disturbed or exploited at some point after its original use. That the earthworks remain as legible as they do, despite this disturbance and the subsequent centuries of grassland and scrub growth, says something about the original scale of construction.