Sitting just above the surrounding low-lying fields, an oval ringfort occupies the crest, its doubled earthworks still readable in the landscape after more than a thousand years of agricultural life pressing in around it.

The site is a rath, the most common type of ringfort in Ireland, typically consisting of an earthen bank enclosing a roughly circular or oval area that would once have served as a defended farmstead during the early medieval period, broadly from around the fifth to the twelfth century. This example measures approximately 38 metres east to west and just under 21 metres north to south, making it a modest but respectable oval. What distinguishes it slightly from a simpler enclosure is its bivallate construction: two concentric banks separated by a fosse, which is a ditch dug between them. The additional bank and ditch may reflect higher status, greater defensive concern, or simply the particular preferences of whoever commissioned the work. The inner bank survives best along its south-south-west to west-north-west arc, where the earthwork retains enough height and definition to give a clear sense of the original structure.