The site sits atop an east-west ridge in pasture, its roughly circular interior measuring about 26 metres across and enclosed by an earthen and stone bank that now stands just 0.3 metres high. At some point the bank was further obscured by field clearance material, the accumulated stones and debris of generations of farmers working the surrounding land. Then, at some later stage, the interior was planted with coniferous trees. Those trees are now fallen, resting where they came down, which gives the enclosure the feel of a place that has been subject to repeated, overlapping layers of use and neglect.

Ringforts, known in Irish as raths when formed primarily of earthen banks, were the most common form of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, typically dating from roughly the fifth to the twelfth centuries. They served as enclosed farmsteads, the bank and any associated ditch providing a degree of security for people and livestock. This one follows the form closely, though time and agricultural activity have reduced its defining feature to little more than a low ridge in the ground. What adds particular interest is the possible presence of a souterrain in the south-west quadrant. A souterrain is an underground stone-lined passage or chamber, often associated with ringforts, and thought to have functioned as a place of refuge or cold storage. There may also once have been a standing stone a short distance to the south-east of the enclosure, suggesting the site existed within a broader prehistoric or early medieval landscape that has since largely disappeared.