Most ringforts, the circular enclosed farmsteads that were the dominant form of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, consist of a single bank and ditch. This one has three concentric earthen banks separated by two fosses, or ditches, arranged around a central area just over 26 metres across. That degree of elaboration, rare enough to be notable, suggests a site of some local importance, built by or for someone who wanted their enclosure to say something about status as much as security.

The earthworks survive with reasonable clarity on the ground. The innermost bank is modest, rising less than a quarter of a metre on its interior face, but the outermost bank is the most substantial of the three, standing 0.84 metres on its inner side. That outermost bank, however, no longer completes the full circuit; it survives only from the south-east around to the north, leaving a portion of the perimeter without its final layer of enclosure. The entrance faces south, as was common with ringforts, and the gap widens progressively outward through each successive bank, from 3.2 metres at the innermost ring to a broad 5 metres at the outer one. The whole thing sits on elevated ground amid rolling pasture, the kind of position that would have made practical sense both for drainage and for visibility across the surrounding landscape.