A ringfort, or rath, was typically a circular enclosure defined by an earthen bank and an outer ditch, used during the early medieval period in Ireland as a farmstead or place of settlement. What survives here is considerably reduced from whatever originally stood, yet the basic geometry persists: a roughly circular area measuring forty metres north to south and forty and a half metres east to west, defined by a bank that has been worn down to little more than a low ridge in most places and to a bare scarp at the northern end. The southeastern quadrant has been levelled entirely, and no trace of the fosse, the outer ditch that would once have reinforced the enclosure, remains visible at ground level.

The first edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map, produced in Ireland during the nineteenth century, recorded the site as a circular area with a pathway running around much of its northern half and field boundaries accounting for the rest of the circumference. That detail is quietly revealing: by the time the surveyors arrived, the old earthwork had already been absorbed into the working logic of the farmland around it, its outline preserved not as monument but as convenience, a track and a field edge following a curve that was already ancient. The bank itself, where it survives, stands just under two metres on the exterior face and less than a metre on the interior, with the western half of the interior sloping away to the west, following the natural fall of the hill.