The interior is strikingly elongated, measuring roughly 36 metres by just over 12 metres, which gives the enclosed space an almost corridor-like quality compared to the more familiar circular ringforts found across Ireland. It sits on a natural rise in gently rolling pastureland, and from that elevated position the silhouette of Knocknarea, the great cairn-topped hill above Strandhill, is visible on the horizon.

The site is a bivallate ringfort, meaning it has two concentric lines of earthen defence rather than one. A ringfort, or rath, was typically a farmstead of the early medieval period, roughly 500 to 1000 AD, with the enclosing banks serving as much to keep livestock in and predators out as to provide any serious military protection. Here, an inner bank stands some 2.2 metres high and 7 metres wide, a substantial construction that would have taken considerable communal effort to raise. Beyond it lies an external ditch, 4 metres across, and then a lower outer bank, 3.2 metres wide and just 0.6 metres high. What the site lacks is any visible trace of an entrance or of a second ditch outside the outer bank, both features commonly found elsewhere. Whether those elements were never built, or have simply been lost to centuries of ploughing and weathering, is not recorded.