At its most visible, the circular earthwork measures roughly 31 metres north to south and 30 metres east to west, with an internal height of just 18 centimetres and an external rise of 10 centimetres. A ringfort, or rath, was typically a defended farmstead of the early medieval period, enclosed by one or more earthen banks and ditches; this one has been so thoroughly levelled that the enclosure survives only as a faint swell in the ground.

What makes the site quietly telling is its company. As far back as 1842, the Ordnance Survey captured the site on its six-inch maps as a hachured circular enclosure, and the same outline appears again on the 1904 and 1937 editions, suggesting the earthwork was still legible on the landscape for nearly a century before being largely obliterated. By 1934, the antiquarian Bowman had recorded this ringfort alongside four others on what was then Mr Leader's land, all of them levelled or partially levelled. Five ringforts concentrated in one landholding points to a townland that was once fairly densely settled in the early medieval period, their gradual removal reflecting successive generations of agricultural improvement and land clearance.

Today the site sits in pasture on a north-facing slope, and a visitor with no prior knowledge would almost certainly walk straight past it. The low rise is there if you are looking for it, but it requires patience and a low angle of light to read anything of the original form.