What makes it worth a closer look is the way it defies easy classification. It is not quite a ringfort, the familiar circular enclosures found in their tens of thousands across Ireland, typically dating from the early medieval period and used as farmsteads. This one is sub-rectangular, roughly 45 metres north to south, and its defining bank survives only along the southern and western sides. Where it does survive, the bank is substantial enough on the outside, rising around 2.35 metres from the exterior ground level, while inside it barely registers at 0.35 metres, giving the enclosure an oddly lopsided profile. To the west, there is a possible fosse, a defensive or boundary ditch, though at about 0.1 metres deep it is now little more than a faint depression.

What adds a further layer of interest is the relationship between this enclosure and its immediate surroundings. Directly to the east lies a ringfort, a separate but adjoining monument, and the two together suggest that whoever shaped this landscape was thinking about space and boundary in a considered way. Along the southern, western, and northern edges, a collapsed earth and stone field boundary has grown up around the monument over time, and along the eastern end of the southern bank it has been incorporated into the bank's exterior, blurring the line between ancient earthwork and more recent agricultural use. The interior slopes gently southward and is now under pasture, which has both preserved and obscured whatever lies beneath.