A lime kiln, the kind of small industrial structure once used across rural Ireland to burn limestone and produce quicklime for fertilising fields and mortaring walls, has been built directly into the north-western section of the earthen bank. Its loading ramp cuts right across the interior, running some 15 metres in length and roughly 2.6 metres wide. The ringfort, in other words, became a convenient quarry of raised ground for a later generation who needed somewhere practical to site a kiln, and the two structures now occupy the same space in an uneasy layering of different eras.

The rath, as this type of earthwork enclosure is also known, is oval in plan, measuring 23 metres east to west and 19.5 metres north to south. A ringfort or rath is typically an early medieval farmstead, enclosed by one or more earthen banks to define a household's territory and offer a degree of protection for people and livestock. Here, the enclosing bank still survives, rising to an external height of 1.6 metres in places, with an external fosse, essentially a ditch, running around the eastern and southern arcs of the monument. Gaps in the bank at the north-north-east and south-east, each about 3.8 metres wide, likely mark original or later entrance points. The record was compiled by Denis Power and uploaded to the national monuments database in August 2011.

The site sits in gently undulating pasture and the interior is level under grass, which gives little away at ground level. An east to west field boundary runs immediately to the north of the enclosing element, a reminder that agricultural boundaries here have been redrawn and reused many times over. The lime kiln structure at the north-west is worth examining closely once you have oriented yourself, since it is the point where the two phases of use visibly collide. The ramp crossing the interior is the clearest physical trace of that later intervention, and once you know what you are looking at, the whole enclosure begins to read differently, less as a ruin than as a site that kept being pressed into service long after its original purpose had been forgotten.