It is a ringfort, the kind of enclosed farmstead that was common across Ireland during the early medieval period, roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries. Thousands survive across the island, yet each one occupies its landscape in a slightly different way, and this one, positioned on a west and north-facing slope, would have had a clear outlook across the surrounding terrain.

The enclosure measures approximately 26.6 metres across on its north-northwest to south-southeast axis and around 24.6 metres on the perpendicular. It is defined by an earthen bank, best preserved at the south-west where the base reaches 5.3 metres wide, the top narrows to 1.6 metres, and the bank stands about 1.5 metres above the exterior ground level. A ringfort's bank was typically accompanied by a fosse, a surrounding ditch from which the material for the bank was dug, but no fosse is visible here. Much of the circuit has been reduced to little more than a scarp, a low eroded slope, supplemented by a hedge running from the south-east around through the west to the north-west. The present entrance, about 2.5 metres wide at the top, is positioned at the east-south-east, and a farm track running outside the bank along the eastern and southern sides suggests the site has been quietly absorbed into working agricultural land over the centuries.