It is neither clearly a ringfort, the kind of circular earthwork that dots the Irish countryside in great numbers and was typically used as a defended farmstead in the early medieval period, nor obviously anything else. The surveyor who examined it in 1978 thought it might simply be a late farmyard, and the two small structures tucked within it only deepen the uncertainty.

The two subrectangular enclosures within the larger oval are the most legible features of the site. The north-eastern structure is the better preserved of the pair, roughly five metres across in both directions, with walls reaching about 0.8 metres in height and built from large irregular stones, though in places these have slumped into little more than a low earthen bank. A narrow entrance gap, just one metre wide and lined with thin upright slabs, opens on the eastern wall. The south-western structure is smaller and less regular, its walls more roughly assembled. The surveyor tentatively placed both in the eighteenth or nineteenth century, which would make them relatively recent by archaeological standards, though the site appeared on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map in the nineteenth century, drawn as a sub-rectangular earthwork with the two house sites visible in its northern portion. Rock outcrops in the surrounding field add a further layer of texture to the landscape, suggesting the ground here has always been marginal and difficult to work.