It is the kind of site that rewards a second look: from a distance, the ground simply rises and levels off, but once you are close enough, the logic of it becomes clear. A raised bank defines a roughly circular enclosure measuring approximately 37 metres east to west and 34 metres north to south, and beyond that bank runs an outer fosse, a defensive ditch that in places is still around half a metre deep. The interior height of the bank is only about 0.2 metres on its inner face, but the exterior rises to 2.2 metres, which gives a sense of how deliberately the surrounding land was shaped to make the enclosure appear formidable from outside.

This is almost certainly a ringfort, the most common type of early medieval settlement monument in Ireland. Ringforts, typically dating from roughly the fifth to the twelfth centuries, were enclosed farmsteads in which a family and their livestock sheltered behind an earthen bank and ditch. They could be modest or elaborate, and this example falls somewhere in between: the fosse is measurable but not dramatic, the bank is well-preserved on the eastern side and reduced to little more than a scarp elsewhere. A slight depression inside the enclosure, running about 8.8 metres in length and 3.3 metres wide, extends towards a breach in the perimeter at the south-west, possibly the trace of an older internal feature or structure. The only identifiable entrance, a narrow gap of just over a metre at the north-east, appears to be of modern origin rather than an original passage through the bank. Trees grow along the eastern to southern arc and from west to north, which both shelter the monument and partially obscure the full circuit of the bank.