It is not a ringfort, not quite a platform, and not dramatic enough in profile to draw casual attention. What it is, is a small enclosed space, roughly eighteen metres across at its widest, ringed by an earthen bank that rises barely forty centimetres above the surrounding ground on its outer face and considerably less on the interior. Outside the bank, to the north and south, a shallow fosse, the term for a ditch dug to reinforce or define an enclosure, follows the circuit. The combination of raised interior, enclosing bank, and external ditch points to deliberate construction, even if its purpose has not been firmly established.

The site sits approximately twenty-two metres to the east of a bivallate ringfort, meaning a ringfort enclosed by two concentric banks and ditches rather than one. Whether the two monuments were related in function or date is not recorded, but their proximity in a boggy landscape is suggestive of sustained activity in this corner of north Cork. The enclosure itself appeared on the 1936 Ordnance Survey six-inch map as a hachured mound, the cartographic shorthand surveyors used to indicate a raised feature of note. By that point, the earthwork had presumably already been softened considerably by time and grazing animals; today the bank carries numerous gaps worn down by livestock moving across it, and the single formal entrance, a gap just over a metre wide on the south-east side of the bank, competes visually with these incidental breaks. The interior surface is uneven underfoot and the whole structure is grass-covered, giving it the appearance of a natural undulation to anyone passing without looking closely.