It is not dramatic to look at, which is precisely what makes it interesting. The earthworks here have survived not through any great preservation effort but simply because poorly-drained pasture tends to discourage the kind of intensive ploughing that erases these features elsewhere.

A ringfort, known in Irish as a rath, was typically a circular enclosure bounded by an earthen bank and ditch, used as a farmstead during the early medieval period, roughly between 500 and 1000 AD. Tens of thousands once existed across Ireland, and those that remain are often subtle enough to be overlooked entirely. The Highpark example, recorded by Denis Power and uploaded to the national monuments database in June 2013, measures approximately 21 metres north to south. Its boundary takes the form of a scarped edge, that is, a deliberately cut slope, around 1.7 metres wide and 0.3 metres high, fronted by an external fosse, a narrow ditch roughly 0.7 metres across, and then a counterscarp bank beyond that. The whole defensive sequence is modest in scale but clearly deliberate in design. What adds a further layer of interest is that a second enclosure adjoins it on the south-east side, a conjoined arrangement that may indicate expansion of the original settlement or use of the space over an extended period.

The site sits in flat pasture, which means access depends entirely on the goodwill of the landowner, as is the case with the vast majority of ringforts across the country. There is no formal path or signage. Visitors with an interest in reading earthworks from ground level will need to move slowly and look for the low ridges and the slight depression of the fosse, features that can be easier to pick out in low winter or early morning light when shadows fall across the ground at a shallow angle. The adjoining enclosure to the south-east is worth examining separately, as the boundary between the two structures is where the history of the site becomes most legible.