The circular enclosure, roughly 22 metres across from east to west, has been levelled over generations of agricultural use, but a low scarp still traces its western edge to a height of about 0.6 metres, and a more pronounced rise of 1.2 metres marks its northern side where the earthwork merges with the slope of the ridge. A derelict cottage leans against its south-western arc, and field walls cut across its south-eastern quadrant, two layers of human occupation pressing down on a third.

Ringforts, which were enclosed farmsteads typically built during the early medieval period between roughly the fifth and twelfth centuries, are among the most common archaeological monument types in Ireland, yet each one carries its own particular biography of use, reuse, and neglect. This example sits at the north-eastern edge of a low coastal ridge in pastureland, a position that would have offered modest elevation and perhaps a view across the surrounding ground. The 1837 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map recorded it as a circular enclosure, suggesting it was still sufficiently legible at that date to be mapped with some confidence. Beneath the interior, there may be a souterrain, an underground stone-lined passage or chamber that in early medieval contexts was often used for storage or as a place of refuge. The possible souterrain here has been catalogued separately, though whether it survives in any accessible form is unclear.

What remains above ground is subtle enough to be overlooked without prior knowledge of what to look for. The scarps are slight and grassy, the cottage ruin unremarkable at a distance, and the field boundaries that overlie the south-eastern quadrant read simply as ordinary land division. The site rewards attention precisely because so little is obvious; the shape of the place only becomes legible once you understand that the slight changes in ground level are the last visible evidence of an enclosure that was already centuries old when the first Ordnance Survey mapped this stretch of the Sligo coast.