The roughly sub-circular enclosure, measuring approximately 27 metres north to south and 31 metres east to west, retains its earthen bank only along the north-north-east to east arc; the rest has been worn flat, levelled by centuries of agriculture or simply by the slow erosion of an earthwork left to its own devices. A ringfort, or rath, is an enclosed farmstead of the early medieval period, typically dating from around the fifth to the twelfth century, defined by one or more earthen or stone banks that once protected a household and its livestock. This one sits quietly on its hillock, less dramatic than it once was, but still legible in the landscape if you know what you are looking for.

What makes this particular site quietly interesting is the evidence of later use preserved within the bank itself. Across the interior of the monument, faint traces of cultivation ridges run in an ENE to WSW direction, suggesting that at some point after the ringfort ceased to function as a settlement, the enclosed area was turned over to tillage. This kind of secondary use is not uncommon; early enclosures were often repurposed by later farming communities who found the raised, sheltered ground convenient. Outside the bank to the north-west, a large quarry hole points to further post-medieval disturbance, possibly the extraction of stone or gravel from the mound itself. A second ringfort lies roughly 340 metres to the north-west, a reminder that these enclosures rarely occur in isolation; early medieval families and communities tended to cluster, and paired or grouped raths across a single townland are a recurring feature of the Irish midland landscape.