Where most ringforts, the circular enclosed farmsteads that dot the Irish countryside in their thousands, rely entirely on man-made earthworks to define and protect their interiors, this one lets the cliff do some of the work. Along its south-eastern arc, the usual bank simply gives way to a natural scarp, the ground dropping sharply into the ravine below with a river running at the bottom. The effect is of a structure that grows directly out of the terrain rather than sitting on top of it.

The earthworks that do survive are well preserved. The roughly circular enclosure measures around 25 metres across on one axis and just under 30 metres on the other, enclosed by a flat-topped bank about three metres wide. Viewed from inside, the bank rises only about 65 centimetres, but from the outside it presents a face nearly two metres high, giving any potential intruder a considerably more imposing obstacle than they might expect. Beyond the bank runs a wide external fosse, the broad shallow ditch that typically accompanies such earthworks, here ranging between three and a half and five metres across and sunk to about 80 centimetres in depth. No entrance is clearly marked in the surviving fabric, though a two-metre gap in the northern bank may represent the original point of access, now worn and ambiguous with age.