A ringfort, or rath, is an enclosed circular or oval farmstead of the early medieval period, typically defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches and used as a defended homestead. This one measured roughly 38 metres along its north-west to south-east axis and 30 metres across, an oval of modest but respectable size, and it appears faithfully on the OS six-inch maps of 1842, 1905, and 1937, each edition recording the same hachured outline.

By the time those later maps were drawn, the site was already under pressure. At some point the south-east to north-west portion of the enclosing bank was levelled, and cattle sheds and a farm enclosure were built across what had been the interior. What remains is an arc of earthen bank running from north-west to south-east, still standing to an internal height of about 0.7 metres and an external height of roughly a metre. It is a modest survival, but it preserves the curve and scale of the original circuit well enough to read the shape of the old enclosure in the landscape, even as the working farm that replaced it continues to occupy the ground beside it.