The enclosure measures roughly 18 metres north to south and 19 metres east to west, ringed by an earthen bank rising to 2.4 metres, with a shallow external fosse, a ditch dug around the outside of the bank, adding a further line of definition. What lifts it beyond a straightforward ringfort, the most common field monument in Ireland, is the presence of a souterrain opening cut into the southern bank. A souterrain is an underground stone-lined passage, typically associated with early medieval settlement, used variously for storage, refuge, or both. That such a feature is embedded in the bank itself, rather than positioned elsewhere in the interior, gives the site a quietly unusual character.

The interior holds further evidence of use across time. Cultivation ridges running on a north to south axis cross the enclosed space, suggesting that at some point the ground inside was worked as agricultural ground, whether that represents the original function of the site or a later repurposing is not recorded. The entrance, facing south-west and measuring 2.7 metres wide, is accompanied by a causeway crossing the fosse, a practical arrangement that is typical of enclosures designed for regular movement of people or livestock. The site sits on level ground, which would have made it well suited to settlement or farming activity, and its dimensions place it in the mid-range of Cork ringforts in terms of scale.