Where the ground simply falls away sharply down to a stream below, no bank was deemed necessary; the drop itself does the work. Only along the southern and north-western arcs did whoever built this place bother to pile up an earthen bank, and even there it is modest, rising less than a metre on the outside. The result is an enclosure that reads, on the ground, as something between a constructed fort and a natural feature, quietly occupying its hillside in what is now open pasture.

The enclosure is almost circular, measuring roughly 30.6 metres on its north-west to south-east axis and 24.7 metres across the other way. Its interior sits slightly raised above the level of the surrounding field, a common characteristic of ringforts, the enclosed farmsteads that were built across Ireland during the early medieval period, typically between the sixth and tenth centuries. Around the northern arc, where the scarp drops toward the stream that marks the townland boundary, there is also an external fosse, a ditch cut into the slope to a depth of around 0.65 metres, adding a further obstacle on the side where the natural fall of ground alone was perhaps considered insufficient. The combination of natural scarp, earthen bank, and fosse suggests a site whose builders read the topography carefully and built only where building was needed.