The drumlin, a smooth elongated hill shaped by glacial deposits, runs roughly north to south, and the site occupies its southern-facing slope where the ground begins to fall away. What remains is a round-topped earthen bank, about four metres wide and rising only half a metre on its inner face, curving for roughly thirty metres across the northeastern portion of the original circuit. The rest has gone, cut across on two sides by field walls and hedging that now follow lines entirely indifferent to whatever stood here before.

The site is classified as a probable rath, the most common type of early medieval settlement monument in Ireland. A rath was typically a circular earthen bank enclosing a farmstead, home to a single family of some local standing, and would usually have been accompanied by a fosse, a surrounding ditch from which the material for the bank was dug. Here, no fosse is visible, which may reflect the degree of degradation rather than an original absence. The full enclosure, had it survived intact, would have measured roughly forty-five metres in diameter, a fairly typical size for the type. The Leitrim drumlin landscape would once have held many such enclosures, most now reduced like this one to a fragment of bank, a slight irregularity in a field boundary, or nothing at all.