Ringforts, also known as raths, were enclosed farmsteads typically built between roughly 500 and 1000 AD, their earthen banks and ditches marking out a family's dwelling space and livestock enclosure. This one has been slowly absorbed into the working landscape until very little of it remains legible at ground level.

The site sits on a gentle south-east-facing slope about 150 metres south of Lough Luirk, just off the crest of a low pasture rise. It is what surveyors classify as a bivallate ringfort, meaning it originally had two concentric defensive banks rather than one, with a fosse, or ditch, running between them. The interior measures roughly 31 metres east to west and 29 metres north to south. Today the inner bank barely rises above the surrounding ground, standing somewhere between 10 and 90 centimetres depending on where you measure it, and the outer bank is even more reduced, surviving only along a south-easterly arc. Facing-stones are still visible on both banks, hinting at the more deliberate construction that once defined the enclosure. The site appeared on Ordnance Survey six-inch maps in both the 1842 and 1915 editions, labelled with the hachure markings cartographers used to indicate earthworks, which means it was already well enough defined in the nineteenth century to be recorded, even if subsequent decades have not been kind to it. Later field walls have been built straight across the northern portion of the interior, and part of that area has been dug over and planted with hardwoods under a Rural Environment Protection Scheme, a conservation programme that, somewhat ironically, has accelerated the erasure of what it was planted beside.