A ringfort, or rath, was typically a circular earthen or stone enclosure used in early medieval Ireland as a farmstead or defended homestead, defined by a raised bank, or cashel if built in stone, with a surrounding ditch known as a fosse. The example here sits on a low rise in pasture, and while that elevated position would once have given the occupants a clear view of the surrounding land, what greets anyone looking for a coherent ancient monument today is something considerably more ambiguous.

When the Ordnance Survey recorded this townland in 1838, the site appeared as a roughly circular embanked enclosure approximately 25 metres in diameter, a modest but legible form. By the time of the 1916 revised edition, that clarity was gone. The western, north-western, and north-eastern sides had been absorbed into a system of later field fences, their straight lines cutting across and overwriting the original curves. The enclosure now reads as an irregular shape, roughly 41 metres east to west and 45 metres north to south. A curving scarp standing around 1.4 metres high survives along the south-western side, which is the most persuasive remnant of the original bank. The eastern side has been quarried out and disturbed. A short stretch of bank survives near the east, with a possible fosse and outer bank beyond it, though it is genuinely uncertain whether these are original features or simply more accumulated field boundary work. The interior retains a spine of level ground running roughly north-north-west to south-south-east, dropping away toward the east. Two further enclosures lie approximately 260 metres to the north-north-east, suggesting this corner of Mayo held a cluster of early settlement activity, even if the individual sites are now difficult to read on the ground.