What is immediately curious about this ringfort is that it preserves no visible entrance, which is unusual even by the sometimes ambiguous standards of these sites. The bank that encloses the interior has been partly damaged along its south-eastern to southern arc, yet where it survives it still carries possible wall-footings along its crown, suggesting that a more substantial stone structure once sat atop the earthen ring.

Ringforts, sometimes called raths when constructed primarily from earth and stone rather than timber, were the most common form of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, typically enclosing a farmstead and its associated buildings. This example at Moyneard is relatively modest in scale, measuring around 21.5 metres east to west, with an enclosing bank roughly three metres wide. The internal face of that bank rises between half a metre and a metre above the enclosed ground, while the exterior face stands somewhat more prominently at between two and two and a half metres. Beyond it lies a fosse, the external ditch that would have added both a practical and a symbolic barrier around the interior; here it runs five metres wide and is best preserved on the western side, where it reaches a depth of about 0.65 metres. The nearby tower house to the south belongs to a much later period, the later medieval era of Anglo-Norman and Gaelic lordship, and the two sites together give the ridge an unusual layered quality, with evidence of occupation or activity spanning a considerable stretch of time.