Sitting near the base of a south-east-facing ridge, on ground that tips into waterlogged pasture to one side and forestry to the other, the site presents as a slightly raised circular area roughly 25 metres across, enclosed not by one defensive ring but by three concentric earthen banks with intervening fosses, the drainage ditches that separated each ring. Most ringforts, the circular enclosed farmsteads built across Ireland from roughly the early medieval period onwards, make do with a single bank and fosse. Three concentric rings suggest a site of some consequence, or at least one whose occupants were unusually concerned with defining and defending their space.

The detail accumulated across those three rings is worth dwelling on. The innermost bank, the widest at around four metres across and standing over a metre high on its outer face, has become so reduced on its interior edge that it now registers mainly as a slight lip in the ground or a faint change in vegetation colour. A probable entrance cuts through all three banks on the west-south-west side, while a separate narrow gap, just under a metre and a half wide, breaks the inner bank to the north. The outer bank has been partially absorbed into a later field boundary to the north-east, a common fate for earthworks that outlasted the communities that built them. Perhaps the most arresting detail is the souterrain opening visible in the outer face of the inner bank at the south-south-west. A souterrain is an underground stone-lined passage or chamber, typically associated with early medieval ringforts and used for storage or, in some interpretations, as a place of refuge. Its presence here, alongside an arc of sod-covered stones in the south-west quadrant and evidence of quarrying immediately to the south-east of the site, gives the impression of a place that has been used, altered, and slowly absorbed by the landscape across a very long stretch of time.