The earthwork is a ringfort, or rath, one of tens of thousands of roughly circular enclosures built across Ireland during the early medieval period, typically as the defended farmsteads of a single family or small community. This particular example measures around 32 metres across, but its boundary has been repaired, rerouted, and repurposed in ways that blur the line between ancient monument and working farm infrastructure.

The original enclosing bank survives in different forms depending on where you look. To the south and west it remains as an earthen bank, still accompanied by an external fosse, which is simply a defensive ditch dug to increase the effective height of the bank above it. To the north there is only a low rise in the ground, while a narrow stone-faced bank takes over from there around to the north-north-east. Most telling is the eastern and south-eastern arc, where the original bank has been replaced entirely by two straight, narrow, stone-faced banks, the geometry of agricultural convenience rather than early medieval enclosure. A second earthen bank running just outside the fosse to the south and west has been folded into the field fence system, so the farm boundary and the ancient rampart are now effectively one. When Bowman recorded the site in 1934, he described it as a double rampart fort on the land of a Mr Nash, noting that the interior platform sat roughly five feet above the surrounding field and that the outer rampart reached a similar height. Those proportions still give the site a quiet presence in the landscape. The interior, once the yard and living space of an early medieval household, is now planted with deciduous trees and Scots Pine, which lend the enclosure a slightly secluded quality that has nothing to do with its original design.