Ringforts are enclosures dating broadly from the early medieval period, roughly the fifth to twelfth centuries, and served as defended farmsteads for individual families or small communities. This particular example is modest in scale, its interior platform measuring about 24 metres in diameter, but it is the layering of its construction that sets it apart from a simple circular mound.

The site works with its landscape rather than against it. The interior sits slightly raised above the surrounding ground, defined by a scarp, essentially a steep drop in the earth, of about 0.7 metres. Below that scarp on the north and south sides runs a shallow fosse, a defensive ditch, with a low external bank beyond it. On the western side, these constructed elements merge into a terrace that incorporates naturally occurring bedrock, meaning the builders read the geology of the ridge and folded it directly into their earthwork. A second, more fragmentary bank survives roughly six metres beyond the outer edge of the first, traceable from the south-west around to the north, suggesting the enclosure was once ringed by a double line of earthworks. Such multivallate ringforts, with more than one enclosing bank and ditch, are generally associated with higher-status occupants within early medieval Irish society. The survival of two distinct enclosing circuits, even in partial form, gives this otherwise unassuming field monument a degree of social significance that its worn appearance does not immediately suggest.

The site has not been entirely spared by more recent centuries. A modern road cut through from the north-north-east to the south-south-east has removed a portion of the platform and part of the outer enclosing elements. Several hollows within the enclosed area also point to disturbance of relatively recent origin. What remains is grazed pasture, the earthworks low and easy to overlook, but the combination of bedrock terracing to the west and the trace of that outer bank curving around the south-west makes for a rewarding examination if approached slowly and at ground level.