It is not a perfect ring, not a tidy square, but a four-sided enclosure with internal dimensions of roughly 51 metres north to south and 26 metres east to west, defined by a low earthen bank that rises to about a metre on its outer face. Around the outside runs a shallow fosse, the kind of ditch that would once have emphasised the boundary between inside and out, though today it barely reaches 0.2 metres in depth. What makes it quietly odd is the accumulation of gaps cut through the bank on three separate sides, some narrow enough to suggest a single animal passing through, one wide enough for a cart or a small herd. The interior tilts gently downhill toward the north-east, and the trees that have colonised the bank and fosse give the whole thing an enclosed, half-forgotten quality.

Enclosures of this type, sometimes called ring forts or raths when they are circular, are among the most common field monuments in Ireland, built predominantly during the early medieval period as farmsteads or cattle enclosures. The trapezoidal plan here is less typical, which is part of what makes it worth noting. By 1934, when a researcher named Bowman recorded it, the site was described as a single-ramparted fort on land belonging to a J. McCabe, with sides measured at 63, 65, 39, and 30 yards, figures that correspond reasonably well to the modern survey dimensions. The fact that it was already being noted in those terms in the 1930s suggests a continuity of local awareness, even if formal archaeological attention came later. The cattle gaps, meanwhile, hint at a long afterlife as a practical enclosure for livestock, with the earthwork pressed into agricultural service long after whatever original purpose it served had been forgotten.