What makes this rath, as ringforts built primarily of earth and stone are often called, particularly interesting is the continuity of its stonework. The same drystone walling that faces the inner and outer surfaces of the enclosing bank reappears in the field boundaries attached to it at the north, east, southeast, and west, suggesting that whoever built or maintained those boundaries was working in the same tradition, with the same hands or the same materials, as those who raised the fort itself.

Ringforts were the most common form of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, typically serving as enclosed farmsteads for a single family and their livestock. This one is modest in scale, roughly 36 metres east to west and 33.5 metres north to south, with a bank about two metres wide at its base. Three gaps in the bank, at the southeast, east, and northwest, may represent original entrances or later breaches; without excavation it is impossible to say with certainty. There is no trace of a fosse, the defensive ditch that commonly runs outside a ringfort's bank, and no visible internal features survive above ground. The absence of a fosse is not unusual for a site of this type, particularly where stone construction takes on a greater role than earthen ramparts alone.