Ringforts, known in Irish as raths, were the most common settlement type in early medieval Ireland, typically consisting of a raised or embanked enclosure within which a farming family would have lived. This one is slightly more complex than average, and its complexity is best appreciated by walking its edges rather than viewing it from a distance.

Surveyed and compiled by Denis Power, with the record uploaded in August 2012, the site occupies the foot of a south-facing slope, with low-lying, poorly drained ground extending to its south and east. The enclosure itself measures roughly 27 metres north to south and 33 metres east to west. What makes it unusually layered is the way its defences respond to the natural gradient of the land. On the northern side, the builders cut a fosse, a defensive ditch, some two metres wide, backed by an external bank rising nearly a metre in height. On the south-eastern side, where the slope behaves differently, there are instead two additional scarped edges, each standing between 1.2 and 1.3 metres high, creating a stepped effect rather than a ditched one. A very faint external fosse, barely ten centimetres deep and around three metres wide, traces the full circuit of the enclosure, suggesting that the defensive ambition was consistent even if the execution varied with the terrain. There is also a shallow quarry cut into the eastern interior, measuring nine by four metres, which may relate to stone extraction during or after the site's occupation.

The interior surface is noticeably uneven, and the enclosing earthwork is now thickly covered by trees and scrub, which both preserves and complicates a visit. Cattle have worn informal paths through the banks at several points, so there is no single identifiable original entrance, and the poaching of the ground by livestock has caused some erosion. The scrub and thorn to the south and east, covering the remains of a separate shallow quarry outside the enclosure, makes the surrounding land feel somewhat tangled. The site sits in working farmland, and any visit should be approached with the usual courtesies around access to private agricultural ground.