What looks from a distance like a simple grassy rise is, on closer inspection, a deliberately engineered circuit of bank and ditch, doubled, with a deliberate gap of roughly two and a half metres opening to the north-north-east.

The enclosure measures approximately 13.4 metres north to south and 12.6 metres east to west. It is defined by a fosse, a flat-bottomed or V-cut ditch used in early medieval earthwork construction, roughly 0.9 metres deep, with traces of an interior bank still surviving to about 0.3 metres. Beyond that, a second bank, concentric with the first and set 5.8 metres outward, rises to 0.8 metres. The combination of two banks, an intervening space, and a single entrance gap places this structure in a category slightly more elaborate than a simple farmstead enclosure. Twenty metres to the south-west lies a ringfort, one of the tens of thousands of circular enclosed settlements built across Ireland roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries, typically as defended farmsteads. The proximity of the two monuments raises quiet questions about whether they were contemporary, functionally related, or simply neighbours across the centuries.