What makes it quietly puzzling is the combination of its elevated position and its modest proportions; at roughly thirty metres in diameter, it is not a grand fortification by any measure, yet it was deliberately placed where it would command a view across the surrounding landscape.

A drumlin is a smooth, elongated hill formed by glacial deposits, common across counties like Leitrim where the Ice Age left the terrain lumpy and irregular. Placing a ringfort, or a structure of this kind, on a drumlin summit was not unusual in early medieval Ireland; the elevation offered both visibility and a degree of natural defence. Here, an earthen bank, about five metres wide, defines the circular area, rising just over a metre on the exterior side while barely registering on the interior. Outside that bank runs a fosse, a shallow ditch roughly seven metres wide, which would have reinforced the boundary between the enclosed space and the world beyond. The shallowness of the fosse today, at around ten centimetres deep, reflects centuries of silting, erosion, and encroachment by growth rather than any original modesty of construction. No trace of the original entrance has been identified, which is not unusual for sites that have been left unexcavated and allowed to become overgrown.