What makes it slightly unusual is the double ring of defences. This is a bivallate ringfort, meaning it was enclosed not by one bank and ditch but by two concentric circuits, an inner earthen and stone bank, an intervening fosse (a dug ditch), and a further outer bank beyond that. Double-ringed examples like this are less common than their single-vallate counterparts across the Irish countryside, and their additional effort of construction is generally taken to suggest a household of some status or resources.

When surveyors recorded the site in 1977, they described a roughly circular enclosed area approximately 34 metres in diameter. The inner bank survives best on its western and north-western arc, while the outer bank is most legible from the south-west and west. The intervening fosse can be traced from the south around through west to the north and east, though the eastern and south-eastern portions of the whole complex have suffered disturbance over time. Within the interior, the ground slopes gently toward the east, and in the western quadrant there is evidence of a house site, a faint but real trace of whoever once lived inside these rings. The northern and north-eastern aspects of the rise offer open views across the surrounding landscape, the kind of sightlines that would have mattered to anyone keeping watch, or simply to a family oriented toward the light.