The earthwork measures thirty-four metres across in both directions, a consistency that speaks to deliberate construction rather than natural accident. What looks from a distance like a slight grassy mound is, on closer inspection, a ringfort, one of the most common monument types in Ireland, built typically between the early medieval period and the end of the first millennium. These were enclosed farmsteads, the earthen banks serving less as military defences and more as markers of status and boundaries for livestock.

The bank itself survives unevenly around the circuit. On the north-west side, where it is best preserved, the base measures nearly three metres wide, and the outer face still stands to around two metres in height, giving a reasonable impression of its original presence. Elsewhere, the structure has been reduced to little more than an external scarp, the bank having been reworked or robbed over the centuries. A fosse, the external ditch that would originally have run around the outside of the bank, is still traceable in places, though it has been put to later uses: widened into a water-hole to the east and south-east, and converted into a lane on the western side, with a field bank added alongside it. The north-east entrance, less than two metres wide at its base, remains the clearest original feature, positioned conveniently close to an old farmyard, suggesting a long continuity of agricultural use on this part of the slope. By the year 2000, the interior had become heavily overgrown, the enclosure gradually reclaimed by vegetation after whatever agricultural function it last served had ceased.