The circular enclosure measures twenty-seven metres in diameter, defined by an earthen bank still standing nearly one and a half metres high, with an entrance oriented to the south-west. What makes it quietly compelling is what the interior conceals: broad cultivation ridges scoring the ground within the bank, and evidence of a souterrain, an underground stone-lined passage or chamber, typically used in early medieval Ireland for storage or as a place of refuge.

Ringforts, known in Irish as raths when formed from earthen banks rather than stone, were the most common form of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, built and occupied roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries. They functioned primarily as enclosed farmsteads, the bank and ditch providing a degree of protection for a family, their livestock, and their stores. The cultivation ridges visible inside this example suggest the enclosed space was worked as well as inhabited, a detail that connects the site to the everyday agricultural rhythms of whoever lived here. The souterrain associated with it adds another layer; such underground features are found at many ringforts across Munster and were often accessed from within the interior of the enclosure, sometimes serving as cool storage for dairy produce, sometimes as a place to hide people or valuables during a raid.