This particular example, sitting on a gentle rise amid undulating rough pasture near Ballymoneen, is modest in scale: approximately eighteen metres across, defined by a low earthen bank that stands less than a metre high on the outside. Small as it is, it would once have represented a household's claim on the landscape, the bank and any accompanying fence or hedge marking a boundary between domestic space and the world beyond.

The fort's current appearance owes something to relatively recent human interference as well as to centuries of neglect. The outer face of the enclosing bank has been cut vertically, a modification that gives it an unusually sharp profile compared with the gentler weathered slopes typical of undisturbed earthworks. There are also four narrow breaks in the bank, each barely a metre wide, positioned at the southeast, south, southwest, and west. Whether these openings are original features, later additions, or simply the result of livestock pressure is difficult to say, but their number is notable. The interior remains level, and the bank itself is now so densely colonised by thorn bushes and brambles that the underlying earthwork is almost hidden within the vegetation.