The site is a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, which was typically the enclosed farmstead of a family of some local standing, its bank and ditch marking the boundary between domestic space and the wider world. This one sits in open pasture, easy to overlook unless you know what you are looking for, yet its earthen architecture has survived well enough to give a clear sense of its original form.

The fort is roughly circular, measuring 39.5 metres across on a southwest to northeast axis, and enclosed by a scarp that still stands to a height of about 2.45 metres. A scarp, rather than a free-standing bank, means the enclosing wall was cut and built directly into the slope of the hillock, giving it a more solid, integrated character than a simple dumped earthwork. Along the northeastern arc, the bank has been faced in stone on its outer side, a detail that suggests some care in construction and possibly a degree of local status for whoever once lived here. A fosse, the outer ditch that would have made the enclosure harder to breach, survives on the northeastern and southeastern sides, though it has largely silted to a shallow 0.25 metres in depth. To the north, rubble and slates have been tipped in, filling it further. A gap in the bank to the northeast most likely marks the original entrance.