It occupies a gently north-facing slope that drops away sharply to the north-east into a river valley, a position that would have made sound practical sense to whoever chose it. The enclosure is roughly 35 metres in diameter, and its defining features are still readable in the landscape despite the passage of centuries and the encroachment of vegetation.

Ringforts, sometimes called raths, were the most common form of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, typically serving as enclosed farmsteads for a family and their livestock. They were defined by one or more earthen banks with an accompanying fosse, which is a ditch dug to provide both the material for the bank and an additional obstacle. Here the scarped edge rises to about 3 metres with a width of over 6 metres, and the external fosse, at nearly 2 metres wide, is traceable all around the enclosure, though it becomes very shallow and marshy on the western and northern sides. A counterscarp bank, the outer lip of the fosse, survives with an internal height of around 2.5 metres, giving a sense of the original scale of the earthwork. The record was compiled by Denis Power and uploaded in August 2011.

Visitors approaching the site should expect dense overgrowth obscuring much of the enclosing element from the north around to the south-east, and the interior is similarly thick with vegetation. The ground inside slopes noticeably downward toward the east-north-east, which can make footing uneven. A field drain enters the fosse at the south-east, and the surrounding field boundaries press in from several directions, with one to the north appearing to have been partially removed at some point. Dry summer conditions make the marshy northern sections more manageable, and the clearest impression of the earthwork's profile is found where the scarped edge and counterscarp bank are least overgrown.