It is the kind of place that rewards a second look. The enclosure measures roughly 49 metres north-west to south-east and just over 42 metres north-east to south-west, making it a substantial ring, surrounded by a bank of earth and stone that still stands between 0.2 and 1.3 metres high and runs about 5.2 metres wide. Outside the bank, a fosse, essentially a defensive ditch, runs around the perimeter. Part of it is rock-cut and remains waterlogged, suggesting the underlying geology was never far from the surface when this feature was first dug.

The site carries the quiet marks of modification over time. The outer face of the bank has been deliberately steepened and the fosse narrowed and deepened, indicating that whoever maintained this place at some point decided it needed strengthening. A break of almost three metres in the eastern bank, accompanied by a causeway crossing the fosse, is thought to mark the original entrance, a common arrangement in ringforts, the enclosed farmsteads that dot the Irish countryside and date broadly from the early medieval period. By 1976, fragmentary traces of an outer bank were still just visible, but they have since been lost entirely, possibly buried beneath a laneway running from the west-northwest around to the east that may overlie exactly where that outer bank once ran. A survey carried out in 1963 noted what were described as faint suggestions of house foundations within the enclosure, traces which have not been formally recorded since.