A ringfort, or rath, is a roughly circular enclosure defined by earthen banks and ditches, built during the early medieval period as a farmstead and defended homestead. This one was still legible enough in 1935 to be recorded on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map as a hachured circular raised area approximately thirty metres in diameter. Today, very little of that circle remains intact.

A north-to-south stone field boundary was at some point driven through the enclosure, cutting it off-centre to the east, and this division did considerable damage to the original form. What survives is fragmentary: a short stretch of earthen bank, about two metres long, clings to the north-east on the eastern side of that field boundary, rising roughly half a metre on the interior and just under a metre on the exterior. Elsewhere, the levelled bank still betrays itself through differential grass growth, a subtle variation in colour and texture that traces the arc from north-east to south-east and again from north-west to north-north-east. According to local information, the low bank that once enclosed the north-east quadrant was levelled around 1981, the most recent act in a long process of agricultural attrition that has reduced a once-complete enclosure to a faint signature in the turf.