No fosse, the defensive ditch that typically surrounds early Irish ringforts, is visible here, and no original entrance can be identified. For something that was almost certainly built to be seen and to project a degree of authority, it has become remarkably easy to overlook.

The site measures roughly 25 metres east to west and 24 metres north to south, making it a modest but coherent enclosed space. A hedge and field bank run along the top of the scarp between south and north-west, the kind of agricultural addition that generations of farmers have layered onto older earthworks without necessarily knowing, or caring, what lay beneath. The positioning on a drumlin, one of the smooth elongated hills of glacial sediment that give this part of Ulster its corrugated character, is typical of early medieval enclosed settlements in Ireland. Ringforts, whether built from earth or stone, were frequently placed on elevated ground to command sight lines across the surrounding terrain, and the northern end of a north-south ridge would have offered exactly that kind of prospect.