What makes it quietly compelling is not its size but its internal complexity: the ground inside has been deliberately raised on the northern side to compensate for the natural fall of the hillside, creating an artificially levelled living area. Traces of cultivation ridges still cross the interior, ghostly evidence of agricultural activity long after the fort's original use. A shallow depression near the southern and south-western base of the inner bank runs into a low mound, the purpose of which is not entirely clear, though such features within ringforts often relate to drainage or structural accumulation over time.

Ringforts, also known as raths, were the most common form of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, typically enclosing a farmstead and its outbuildings within one or more earthen banks and ditches. This example is more elaborate than most, with an inner bank rising to about two metres on the interior face, a waterlogged fosse between the two banks fed by a stream that exits northward, and a shallower outer ditch running along the north, east, and southern sides. Two gaps break the inner bank, one to the south-east and one to the south-south-west, though the bank continues across both as a faint rise, suggesting the breaks may be original entrance points rather than later damage. Inside the fort, a souterrain has also been recorded. Souterrains are underground stone-lined passages or chambers, common features of early medieval settlement that were likely used for cool storage and possibly as places of refuge. An aerial photograph taken in September 1991 recorded that the outer bank had by then been levelled, at least in part, pointing to the steady attrition these earthworks face from agricultural activity over time.