The form is that of a rath, an enclosed settlement type typical of early medieval Ireland, in which an earthen bank and ditch defined a farmstead or small community. Here the design runs to two concentric banks with an intervening fosse, the ditch between them, giving the enclosure a more elaborate defensive or status-signalling profile than single-bank examples. The whole circle measures around 25 metres in diameter, and at the north-east a stone-lined entrance causeway marks the original point of access with unusual precision.

What gives the site an extra layer of interest is what lies beneath it. Within the south-west quadrant of the interior, archaeologists have identified what is probably a souterrain, an underground stone-built passage or chamber that was commonly dug beneath early medieval settlements for storage, refuge, or both. These subterranean features are frequently the last element of a rath to be noticed, and their presence here suggests the site was a functioning settlement of some substance. Overlying the outer bank along the arc running from north-east through east to south-east, a later field wall has been built, which speaks to the long agricultural use of this landscape and the way successive generations quietly incorporated older monuments into working land without necessarily understanding or recording what they were building over.