A rath, as this kind of earthwork is known, was typically a circular area enclosed by one or more earthen banks and ditches, serving as a defended homestead for a farming family. This particular example sits in rough pasture and rushes, with a boggy shelf pressing in from the south and a shallow fold in the land to the northwest, giving the site a quietly sunken, half-absorbed quality.

The ringfort is nearly circular, measuring 22.8 metres east to west and approximately 22.4 metres north to south. Where it survives best, from the west round to the northeast, the enclosure is marked by a scarp only about 0.4 metres high. Elsewhere, an intermittent bank defines the circuit, roughly 4.6 metres wide, with an internal height of 0.3 metres and an external height of 0.6 metres. These are modest dimensions, and the site has not escaped the pressures of agricultural improvement. The eastern side, over a stretch of about 15 metres, and much of the southern perimeter have been cut into by field drains. Several quarry faces, reaching up to 1.5 metres high, have also eaten into the southern edge, leaving the monument in a noticeably incomplete state.