Circular enclosures of this kind, sometimes referred to loosely as ringforts, were a common feature of early medieval Ireland, typically serving as enclosed farmsteads or places of settlement, though not every example fits neatly into that category. What makes this one notable is precisely how little of it remains, and yet how much can still be read from what is left.

The enclosure measures roughly 26 metres in diameter. Along the north-western to eastern arc, the boundary survives as a scarp, a cut or step in the ground surface rising to about one and a half metres, where the land was shaped or eroded to define the edge of the interior. From the east, sweeping south and around to the west, the boundary drops to a low bank, much more subdued and harder to distinguish from the surrounding terrain. Together, these two forms suggest an enclosure that was once more coherent, its circuit now partly collapsed into the slope of the land around it.