Roughly circular, measuring around 26 metres north to south and 28 metres east to west, it belongs to a class of monument known as a ringfort or rath, an enclosed farmstead of the early medieval period, typically built between the fifth and twelfth centuries, in which a family and their livestock lived within a raised bank for security and status alike.

The bank here survives to an internal height of up to 1.6 metres, and an external fosse, that is, a ditch dug to provide the material for the bank and to add an extra line of defence, runs along the northern to south-eastern arc to a depth of up to 1.7 metres. Two gaps break the encircling bank: a wider one to the north, at 3.5 metres across, and a narrower one to the east, at 2 metres, the eastern gap accompanied by a causeway crossing the fosse. These are most likely original entrances rather than later breaks. Particularly interesting is a low L-shaped feature in the south-western quadrant of the interior, measuring roughly 10.4 metres north to south and 6.7 metres east to west, which may represent the footprint of a hut site, the faint outline of a structure once occupied by the people who built and used the enclosure.

The site sits in open pasture and the earthworks, though reduced by centuries of agricultural use, remain legible on the ground. The south-facing aspect of the slope would have been a deliberate choice, maximising light and shelter for a farming household, and the careful placement of the entrances suggests a community that thought seriously about movement, access, and perhaps the direction of prevailing wind.