The mound is modest in scale, roughly six metres across, but it is defined by a scarp, an abrupt change in ground level forming a kind of earthen bank, that measures over three metres wide and nearly one and a half metres high where it can be properly assessed from south to north. That combination of deliberate shaping and subsequent neglect gives the site an odd quality: something was clearly constructed here with intention, and the land around it has been worked for agriculture, yet the feature itself has been left to vegetation so dense it has become effectively impenetrable.

The earthwork retains what appears to be a short arc of counter-scarp at the north-east, a low outer bank running parallel to the main enclosing element, which would be consistent with the kind of small ringfort or enclosure found across the Irish midlands and south. A ringfort, known in Irish as a ráth or lios depending on its construction, was typically a defended farmstead of the early medieval period, roughly 500 to 1100 AD, enclosed by one or more earthen banks. Whether that is the origin here remains uncertain; the north-east arc of the main scarp has suffered slippage and is now broad and low, and the enclosing elements between north-east and south are so obscured by vegetation that a confident reading of the full circuit is impossible. What survives suggests something once coherent, now only partially legible.