This is a ringfort, one of the thousands of roughly circular earthwork enclosures built across Ireland from around the early medieval period onwards, and used variously as farmsteads, cattle enclosures, and defended homesteads. Most people walk past such features without recognising them for what they are, and this one, worn down over centuries of farming and weather, asks a little patience of the eye.

The enclosure is subcircular in plan, measuring approximately 41 metres on its north-west to south-east axis and 35 metres across the other way. It slopes gently downward towards the south. What survives of the defining earthen bank is most legible on the north-east side, where the base measures around 2.3 metres wide and the bank still stands to a modest external height of about 0.7 metres. Along much of the north-west to north-east circuit, the bank has been reduced to little more than a scarp dropping to the interior, and elsewhere it presents only as an external scarp. There is no visible fosse, the term for the ditch that typically accompanied such a bank and which, in better-preserved examples, supplied the earth used to build it up. The original entrance, roughly 3.2 metres wide, faces south-south-east, an orientation that would have made practical sense for both light and drainage on this sloping ground.