The ground rises slightly within a low bank of earth and stone, forming a ring roughly twelve and a half metres across. The bank itself is about two metres wide and barely thirty centimetres high on the interior, which gives the whole thing an understated, almost apologetic presence in the landscape.

Enclosures of this kind, sometimes called ringforts or raths, are among the most common early medieval monuments in Ireland, typically associated with farmsteads dating from roughly the fifth to the twelfth centuries. They usually consist of a raised circular area enclosed by one or more banks, often accompanied by a fosse, the drainage ditch that runs just outside the bank. This one has no fosse, which is not unusual where the ground conditions or the builder's preference made one unnecessary. What is absent here, too, is any recognisable original entrance, meaning the gap or causeway that would have allowed people and animals in and out has been obscured over time, whether by weatherfall, agricultural activity, or simply the slow work of centuries pressing the earthwork back into the hillside. The site's position on the bluff edge would have offered a natural defensive advantage on at least one side, with the drop to the stream below doing some of the work that a bank or ditch might otherwise provide.