What survives is a cropmark, a ghostly imprint readable only from the air, where differences in soil moisture and crop growth trace the outline of a circular enclosure roughly 25 to 30 metres in diameter across a west-facing slope above the River Slaney.

A ringfort, or rath, is a type of enclosed farmstead built predominantly during the early medieval period in Ireland, typically defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches surrounding a domestic space. Here, that defining feature is a single fosse, meaning a ditch, and its circuit is no longer complete. A later field bank running northeast to southwest has cut across the southeastern arc of the enclosure, partly obliterating what was already a low-lying trace. The site sits on a gentle spur of land, with small streams running east to west at roughly 170 to 200 metres to both the north and south, and the Slaney itself lying about 650 metres to the west. It is the kind of positioning typical of early settlement choices: elevated enough for drainage and visibility, but close to water on multiple sides.

Because the enclosure survives only as a cropmark detected on aerial photographs, there is little to see at ground level. The field bank that truncated it is likely the most tangible feature a visitor would encounter, though it reads as an ordinary boundary rather than anything that signals the older geometry lying beneath it.