The earthwork measures around 31 metres across at its widest, defined on most sides by an overgrown bank of earth and stone and, to the south-west, by a natural scarp that drops some 2.3 metres. A ringfort of this kind, sometimes called a rath, was typically a enclosed farmstead of the early medieval period, its bank and, where present, surrounding ditch acting as a boundary against livestock as much as a defensive barrier. Here, though, there is no visible fosse, the ditch that would ordinarily accompany such a bank, which gives the site a slightly ambiguous quality, its origins legible but not entirely straightforward.

What survives today is a palimpsest of different moments in time laid one over another. The ancient bank, no more than 60 centimetres high on its outer face at the north-west, has been absorbed into the working landscape: a modern earth and stone wall now runs along its outer edge from the north-west around to the south, and a farm lane follows the base of the scarp. Two gaps in the earthwork, at the north-west and south-south-east, have been widened for machinery access, a practical adaptation that has reshaped what was once a more complete enclosure. Rock outcrop breaks through the grass within the interior, a reminder that this ridge-top location was chosen in part for its natural elevation and the firm ground it offered.