It measures roughly 30 metres across, defined by a stone-faced earthen bank and a line of hedge, and it has no visible entrance and no surrounding ditch. That absence is itself a small puzzle. Most ringforts, the enclosed farmsteads of early medieval Ireland typically dating from around the fifth to the twelfth centuries, were built with a fosse, a defensive ditch dug around the outside. Here, there is none, which leaves the original purpose and character of the enclosure open to interpretation.

The site appears on the 1834 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, labelled in the gothic lettering that the OS conventionally reserved for antiquities, described simply as a "fort". By the 1907 edition it had been reduced to a notation as a circular field, suggesting that its identity as something older had, at least cartographically, faded into the agricultural. The bank that once ran from the northeast to the south-southwest was removed around 1955, though its line remains faintly legible on the ground. What survives on the northwest arc gives some sense of the original structure: a base width of around three metres, with the bank rising roughly a metre on the interior side and just over one and a half metres on the exterior. The perimeter of trees visible on the 1834 map has also gone, leaving the grass-covered interior exposed and the circuit incomplete but still traceable.