It is a platform roughly 32 metres east to west and 29 metres north to south, subcircular in outline, and so subtly raised above the surrounding ground that it could easily be passed off as a natural feature of the boggy riverside landscape. What gives it away is the geometry: this is an earthen fort, or ringfort, the kind of enclosed settlement that was common across early medieval Ireland, typically serving as a defended farmstead for a family of some local standing.

The site sits on the southern bank of an east-west channel of the Yellow River, with a looping bend of the same stream running about 50 metres to the north. That watery proximity was almost certainly deliberate. Rivers and their meanders offered a degree of natural defence, and the choice of a low, flat position near a watercourse is a pattern seen at other ringforts across the Irish midlands and west. The surface today is covered in grass, and the enclosing bank has been worn down to a scarp no more than 25 centimetres high in places, though a field bank running roughly north-east to south-south-west still defines the old line of lazy-beds, the narrow cultivation ridges left by generations of spade farming. A band of reeds to the north and north-east marks where the ground stays wet. No original entrance has been identified, which is not unusual where erosion and centuries of agricultural activity have smoothed away the finer details of an earthwork.