The outer scarp, rising to about 1.5 metres on the eastern side and tapering to 0.8 metres at the west, describes a large circular enclosure roughly 68 by 66 metres across. Ringforts, which date predominantly from the early medieval period and served as enclosed farmsteads for a family and their livestock, are among the most common monument types in Ireland, but many consist of little more than a single bank and ditch. This one carries an internal life that sets it apart.

Inside the enclosure, the space is not simply open ground. The north-western quadrant is partitioned off from the rest by a curving internal bank, between three and three and a half metres wide and up to 0.9 metres high, with large stones embedded in it that may be the remnants of original stone facing. Within the south-eastern portion of the area this bank encloses, there are the remains of a possible house structure built directly against the bank's inner face. A second possible house site lies in the south-eastern quadrant of the main enclosure itself. The north-western zone is subdivided again by a further low bank running from the corner of the house site out to the perimeter, creating what amounts to a series of nested or partitioned spaces within a single fort. The entrance was probably at the south-west, where the internal ground level sits lowest relative to the outside. About 90 metres to the north, at the base of the slope where the ground falls away, there is a holy well; a holy well typically marks a freshwater source that acquired religious significance, often pre-Christian in origin and later absorbed into Christian practice. The proximity of water to a settled enclosure of this kind is unlikely to be coincidental.