What survives is a roughly circular enclosure about thirty-five metres across, and even that survival is partial and uneven, which makes it a more honest specimen of the type than many of its tidier counterparts elsewhere in the country.

Ringforts, known in Irish as raths when they are earthen rather than stone-built, were the most common form of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, typically used as farmsteads between roughly the fifth and twelfth centuries. This one is defined along its eastern to south-south-eastern arc by a bank with an external fosse, a shallow ditch dug to throw up the material for the bank alongside it. Around the rest of the circuit, the enclosing element is simply a scarp, a natural or worked slope in the ground rather than a built-up bank, which suggests either that the original construction was less substantial on those sides or that the earthworks have weathered down to almost nothing over time. The result is a site that requires a little patience to read in the landscape, one where the geometry only becomes legible once you understand what you are looking for.