Ringforts, the roughly circular enclosures of earthen bank and ditch that dot the Irish countryside in their thousands, were typically the farmsteads of early medieval landowners, dating broadly from the period between 500 and 1000 AD. They are common enough. A standing stone sharing the same enclosed space, however, suggests a more layered history, one in which a much older monument, probably prehistoric, was either deliberately incorporated or simply absorbed as the landscape was reorganised around it.

The enclosure itself is modest but legible on the ground. The roughly circular interior measures about 27 metres east to west, enclosed by an earthen bank standing some 1.3 metres high along the western, northern, and eastern sides. To the south, the boundary is formed by the northern bank of a second, conjoined ringfort, meaning two enclosures effectively share a wall, an arrangement known from other sites in Cork but far from the norm. A fosse, the external ditch that would have added both drainage and a degree of defence, runs from the south-west around to the east-south-east, reaching a maximum depth of 1.4 metres. A causeway five metres wide to the north would have provided the main point of entry. Parts of the northern and north-western bank have been modified over time and faced with stone, though the original line of the earthwork is still visible as a low shelf, or berm, on the outer side. A gap to the south-west, presumably a later breach, has been filled in with a stone wall. The site sits on a north-west-facing slope in what is now pastureland, which has helped preserve its basic form even as the surrounding land was brought into agricultural use.