The site is a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, which was the most common form of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, typically dating from roughly the sixth to the twelfth century. Most were the farmsteads of single family groups, defined by one or more enclosing banks that offered both a sense of status and a practical barrier for livestock. This one is subcircular in plan, measuring 33 metres east to west and 28.5 metres north to south, dimensions that place it broadly in the middle range of known examples.

The enclosure survives in fair condition, though not uniformly. Along the southern to south-western arc, and again from the north-west around to the north, the boundary takes the form of a bank built from earth and stone. Elsewhere the defining element is a scarp, meaning the ground simply drops away rather than rising into a built-up bank, suggesting either that the original construction was less substantial on those sides or that material has been robbed or eroded over time. A field wall, almost certainly of much later date, cuts across the monument at both its northern and southern edges, the kind of agricultural intrusion that happened quietly across Ireland as land was subdivided through the post-medieval centuries. Two gaps in the perimeter, at the west-south-west and north-north-west, appear to be modern breaks rather than original entrances.