It belongs to a category of monument known loosely as a fort or ringfort, an enclosed circular or oval settlement type common across Ireland from roughly the early medieval period, defined by banks, ditches, and sometimes timber or stone walls. What makes this particular example worth attention is partly how well it was recorded at a specific moment, and partly how much has changed since.

When surveyors examined the site in 1968, they found a grass-covered subcircular area measuring roughly 39 metres from north-northwest to south-southeast and 32 metres from east-northeast to west-southwest. The interior was slightly dished, sitting about 0.3 metres below the level of the surrounding bank, a common feature in ringforts where the enclosed ground was deliberately shaped or simply settled over centuries. The enclosing bank or scarp was broad, between 3.5 and 4 metres wide and up to 1.8 metres high, reinforced at the time by a hedge. Beyond it lay an outer fosse, essentially a ditch, best preserved on the northern and southwestern sides, with a top width of around 7 metres. A large entrance, approximately 3 metres wide, faced the south-southeast. By 1995 the hedge had been removed, and satellite imagery from 2013 showed the defining features becoming still less distinct, the bank merging gradually into the surrounding field.

The monument sits within a wider field system, and the gradual softening of its edges is a common fate for earthworks that are no longer actively maintained or protected. What was clearly legible to a fieldworker in 1968, with measurable scarps and a discernible fosse, has been slowly reclaimed by ordinary agricultural land. The entrance at the south-southeast remains one of the more persistent indicators of the original layout.