Most ringforts, the circular enclosed farmsteads built across Ireland roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries, contain the traces of domestic life: post-holes, hearths, the odd souterrain used for storage or refuge. A standing stone, by contrast, belongs to a much older tradition, its original purpose now largely unknowable. Whether the early medieval farmers who raised the earthen bank here were aware of the stone's age, or whether they simply enclosed it because it was already there, is an open question.

The enclosure itself is modest but legible. A roughly circular area, measuring about 24.7 metres north to south and 23.9 metres east to west, is defined by an earthen bank that still stands to around 0.9 metres in height. The bank is stone-faced on its inner side, a detail that speaks to some care in its original construction. Outside, a fosse, the ditch that typically accompanies such earthworks and from which material was dug to raise the bank, runs from the south-south-east around to the north-east, surviving to a depth of about 0.55 metres. An entrance gap, roughly two metres wide, breaks the bank to the east-north-east, though it is partially blocked by large stones. In the south-west quadrant there is a possible souterrain, an underground stone-lined passage or chamber that would have served as a cool store or a place of concealment. The standing stone sits inside the bank toward the south-south-west, a quiet anomaly in an already layered landscape.