The ringfort, a type of circular enclosure used as a farmstead or defended homestead during the early medieval period, predates those boundaries by a considerable margin, yet the modern landscape has carved itself into the site with little ceremony.

The enclosure is a cashel, meaning its boundary was built not from an earthen bank but from drystone walling, and the raised circular interior still measures 22.7 metres in diameter. The wall has been heavily reduced over time, what surveyors describe as "denuded", though its most legible stretch runs from the north-east around to the south-east, where it still stands to a width of 3.2 metres and a height of 1.1 metres. Further around to the south and south-west, the course of the wall is marked instead by a series of large upright boulders, the dressed stonework long since robbed or collapsed, with only these standing stones holding the line. The site was recorded as 'Fort' on the Ordnance Survey maps of both 1836 and 1876, suggesting it was still recognisable as a coherent feature at that time, even if already in decline. No original entrance can now be identified in what survives.