Measuring 38 metres in diameter, it would once have formed a complete ring, the kind of enclosed space that recurs across the Irish landscape in the form of ringforts, a general term for the circular earthen or stone enclosures that served as farmsteads, high-status residences, or places of assembly during the early medieval period. What survives here is fragmentary: a low scarp marking the western arc, and the ghost of the rest visible only as a cropmark to the east, where ploughing has long since levelled whatever earthwork once stood.

The damage to the monument is the result of incremental agricultural change rather than any single act of clearance. Field walls have been built straight across the enclosure, cutting it at the north, south, and south-west, so that the original circuit is now interrupted at multiple points. Where the walls cross it, the enclosure has effectively been absorbed into the field system around it. To the east of those walls, cultivation has done the rest. Cropmarks of this kind, in which buried features show up as differences in crop growth or soil colour, are often the only evidence that survives once ploughing has removed surface relief, and they are typically visible only from the air or in dry summers when vegetation stress reveals the underlying archaeology.