A ringfort is typically an early medieval farmstead, defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches enclosing a roughly circular area of domestic and agricultural life. Here, that enclosure, roughly 27.6 metres across, has been absorbed into a larger sacred landscape rather than standing apart from one. Its defining scarp, a low earthen edge rising to about half a metre, has been partially levelled on the northern arc until it sits almost flush with the surrounding ground, giving the site an underplayed, barely-there quality in the field.

Within the ringfort's grassy interior, two low sod-covered rises break the otherwise level ground. One, irregular in plan and measuring roughly 4.7 metres east to west, sits slightly east of centre; its purpose is unknown. The other, smaller and abutting the eastern scarp, adds to the sense that the ground here holds things it is not yet prepared to explain. What the 1916 Ordnance Survey six-inch map does offer is a cross symbol in the ringfort's interior, annotated with the placename 'Kildunagha (Site of)', which suggests the former presence of a church. The element 'Kil' derives from the Irish 'cill', meaning a small early Christian church or cell, and its appearance here hints at a long overlap between the secular enclosure of the ringfort and the devotional life that later gathered around it. Fourteen metres to the east, still within the bounds of the same ecclesiastical enclosure, a children's burial ground and a bullaun stone survive. A bullaun stone is a boulder or outcrop bearing one or more cup-shaped hollows, often associated with early Christian sites and sometimes used for ritual purposes. That cluster of features, ringfort, possible church site, children's burial ground, and bullaun, occupying the same bounded space, points to centuries of layered use that resists easy summary.