Ringforts, circular enclosures defined by an earthen bank and an outer ditch, were the standard farmstead of early medieval Ireland, typically housing a single family and their livestock. Finding two so close together raises questions that the landscape itself does not answer, whether they were occupied simultaneously by related households, or built in sequence as one community's needs shifted across generations.

The ringfort described here is a modest but legible example of the type. Its circular enclosure measures about 28.4 metres north to south, bounded by an earthen bank that rises just over half a metre on the interior side and about 1.6 metres when measured from the base of the external fosse, the shallow surrounding ditch, which drops to around 0.6 metres in depth. A gap in the bank to the northwest likely marks the original entrance, the point through which people, animals, and carts once passed. The interior is now grass-covered, and the bank has been planted with deciduous trees, giving the whole structure a slightly domesticated outline against the surrounding farmland. Its companion ringfort lies just to the southwest, close enough that the two enclosures would have been clearly visible to one another.