Ringforts, known as raths when constructed from earth rather than stone, were the dominant settlement type in early medieval Ireland, typically enclosing a farmstead and its associated buildings within one or more concentric earthen banks. This example is a good specimen of the type, though its setting and the precision of its surviving earthworks give it a particular quiet interest.

The ringfort is roughly circular, measuring just over forty-five metres north to south and forty-four metres east to west. Its inner bank is nearly two metres high on the exterior face, with a fosse, or defensive ditch, running around it that reaches a depth of over a metre in places, notably deepest where an outer bank also survives. That outer bank, modest at around a third of a metre in exterior height, is only visible from the south, south-west, and west, suggesting differential survival depending on aspect and land use. Later agricultural activity has left its own marks on the site: field banks and ditches from subsequent centuries run into the inner bank from both the west and south quadrants, overlaying the earlier landscape with the practical geometry of post-medieval farming. A gap in the inner bank in the north-west quadrant may indicate an original entrance point, though it is now obstructed by a tree and heavily overgrown with brambles, making close inspection difficult.