The site is a ringfort, a form of enclosed settlement used across Ireland roughly from the early centuries AD through to the Norman period, typically serving as a defended farmstead for a single family or small group. What gives this particular example a slightly odd quality is its position: rather than occupying a commanding hilltop, it sits towards the lower end of a northeast-facing slope, where the ground drops away steeply on that same northeast side, creating an asymmetry in the surviving earthworks that the landscape itself helped to shape.

The enclosure measures approximately 29.5 metres across on its northwest to southeast axis and around 27 metres on its northeast to southwest axis, making it a modest but recognisable example of the type. An earthen bank defines its circuit, with a base width ranging from around 3.4 to 5.8 metres depending on where you measure it. The internal height of that bank is considerably reduced on the downslope northeast side, where only about 10 centimetres survive above the interior ground level, while the southwest side retains closer to 30 centimetres internally. On the outside, the bank reads more clearly, rising to between one and 1.3 metres above the surrounding ground. Beyond the bank, on the southwest to northwest arc, there is a fosse, the ditch that would originally have been dug to provide material for the bank and to add a further obstacle. The entrance, just over 2 metres wide at its base, faces east-northeast, an orientation that would have caught morning light and is broadly consistent with entrances seen on ringforts elsewhere in Ireland. The whole circuit is now heavily overgrown, which at once obscures and preserves it.