A rath, as this type of ringfort is known, was typically a farmstead defined by one or more earthen banks and a surrounding ditch, the whole thing enclosing a space where a family would have kept their home and livestock. This particular example survives only partially, but what remains is enough to read the shape of the original design.

The surviving bank traces an arc from the east-southeast around to the north-northwest, rising to about 1.4 metres, with an external fosse, or ditch, still measurable at around 0.8 metres deep. The circular area it defines measures roughly 36 metres in diameter, which falls within the typical range for a single-family rath. The rest of the bank has been levelled, whether by farming or time it is difficult to say, but the remaining stretch is stone-faced in places, suggesting a degree of construction effort beyond a simple earthen mound. A line of deciduous trees has since been planted along the bank, which is common on Irish farmland where ringforts were left standing, partly from practicality and partly from a longstanding reluctance to disturb sites believed to carry some supernatural protection. The fort sits on a south-southwest-facing slope, currently in pasture, which would have offered reasonable shelter and drainage for whoever once farmed here, likely sometime between the fifth and twelfth centuries.