The enclosing bank, while modest in height when viewed from the inside, rises to nearly two metres on its outer face, and that difference tells you something important about how these structures worked. A ringfort, or rath, was the standard form of enclosed farmstead in early medieval Ireland, typically dating from roughly the fifth to the twelfth century. The bank was not a fortification in any military sense but a boundary, a marker of household territory, and a deterrent to livestock straying or being taken. The external fosse, the drainage ditch that runs along the outside of the bank from the north-west to the south-east here, would have added to that sense of defined, managed space.

The site is roughly circular, measuring just over twenty-nine metres north to south and around twenty-six and a half metres east to west, making it a fairly typical example in terms of scale. The earthen bank has an internal height of about 1.2 metres and an external height of 1.9 metres, with the outer fosse dropping to a depth of 1.5 metres and running about a metre wide. A causeway entrance, 2.6 metres across, survives at the south-south-east, which is a common orientation for rath entrances, generally thought to reflect a preference for morning light and shelter from prevailing westerly winds. The notes compiled by Denis Power, uploaded in August 2011, also record that a field boundary skirts the enclosure from the south around to the west, a detail that suggests the later agricultural landscape has arranged itself, at least partly, around the older feature rather than through it.

The site sits on a gently south-east-facing slope in pasture, and the interior, which slopes down toward the south, is partially covered by overgrowth. That vegetation can make it harder to read the interior clearly, though it also means the earthworks themselves tend to be better preserved than in ploughed land. Visiting in late winter or early spring, before growth thickens, gives the clearest sense of the interior's shape and the way the bank sits against the surrounding field. The causeway entrance at the south-south-east is the most legible feature and a useful starting point for orienting yourself within the enclosure. As with most raths in agricultural land, the site is on private farmland, so access requires local enquiry and landowner permission before approaching.