A ringfort, to give the briefest explanation, is a circular enclosure defined by one or more banks and ditches, common across early medieval Ireland and typically associated with a single farmstead or household. Finding not one but three house sites clustered within a single ringfort's interior is the kind of detail that rewards closer attention.

When the site was examined in 1970, the three structures were described as irregular in shape, each enclosed by grass-covered banks of earth and stone pressing up against the ringfort's inner bank. The largest of the three is roughly rectangular, measuring 7.6 metres on its northeast to southwest axis and 4.3 metres across, with foundations of large stones still retaining much of their internal and external stone facing on either side of a bank about 1.4 metres wide. A gap in the southeast side of this structure may mark an original entrance. A second, smaller rectangular house site occupies the western quadrant, adjoining both the ringfort's inner bank and the first structure to its southeast. The third sits in the southwest quadrant and is subtriangular in shape, tucked in where the ringfort bank curves and the second house site meets it. The three structures together suggest a more densely occupied or repeatedly reused enclosure than the typical single-farmstead model might imply.

The site sits on a northeast-facing slope near the top of a hill that, though not dramatic in elevation, is described as prominent in the local landscape. The grass-covered banks are subtle at ground level, and the stone facing within the largest hut site's foundations is the most legible feature for a careful eye.