The trees have effectively hidden what was already easy to miss: a subcircular enclosure, the kind of earthen fort, or ringfort, that was once a common feature of the Irish rural landscape, typically serving as a defended farmstead during the early medieval period. This one measures roughly 34.5 metres east to west and 31 metres north to south internally, defined by an earthen bank that still stands up to 1.8 metres high on its exterior along the north-west to north-east arc, though it has been worn down to a low scarp of between one and 1.4 metres elsewhere around the circuit.

The interior holds a further puzzle. Against the inside of the northern bank, there is an oval area measuring approximately 11 metres by 5.5 metres, itself bounded on its southern side by a low bank. This subsidiary enclosure may have served as a pen for animals or as a defined working space within the larger fort, though no definitive interpretation has been attached to it. What is also absent is any clearly identified original entrance, which is not unusual in earthwork sites where centuries of agricultural activity have smoothed or rerouted the original approach. A north-south field wall, part of a later farming landscape, has been built directly over the western edge of the monument, and the ground west of this wall is heavily overgrown, further complicating any reading of the site. The description of the fort draws on Michael J. Moore's Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim, published in 2003, which catalogued a county whose archaeological record had long been underrepresented in the literature.