What makes it worth a second look is not its grandeur but its specificity: the bank, the fosse, and what may be an original entrance all survive in varying degrees of preservation, making it a small but readable example of an ancient enclosed site.

The earthwork measures roughly 33 metres north to south and 25 metres east to west. It is defined by an earthen bank, approximately 5 metres wide, which stands between half a metre and nearly two metres high depending on where you measure it. Outside the bank runs a fosse, the term for a defensive or boundary ditch, which extends around the eastern, southern, and western sides. On the northern side, the bank has been reduced to a scarp and the fosse to a narrow berm, a flattened shelf of ground, suggesting that this section has suffered more from time or disturbance. A gap roughly 2 metres wide at the southeast may represent the original entrance. About 170 metres to the southwest, at the summit of the col, a separate rath sits on higher ground; a rath being a roughly circular earthen enclosure common across early medieval Ireland and typically associated with a farmstead or small settlement. The two sites occupy the same ridge, though whether they were in use simultaneously or belong to different periods is not recorded.