A roughly circular enclosure measuring just under twenty metres across, it is defined by an earthen bank that still stands to about 1.8 metres in height, though the whole structure is now heavily overgrown. What catches the attention, if you get close enough, is the entrance facing towards the east-southeast, with the northern side of the opening retaining its original stone facing, a small but telling detail of how carefully these places were once built.

Ringforts, known in Irish as raths when they are earthen rather than stone-built, are among the most common monument types surviving in the Irish landscape. They were typically the enclosed homesteads of farming families during the early medieval period, roughly the fifth to twelfth centuries, with the surrounding bank serving as much to define a household boundary and contain livestock as to provide serious defence. The fact that this example sits in a natural hollow rather than on an exposed prominence is not unusual; the choice of a sheltered, east-facing position would have made practical sense for a farming settlement, offering some protection from prevailing westerly weather while catching the morning light. The stone-facing on the northern side of the entrance suggests that at least some structural effort went into making the gateway durable, even if the rest of the bank was formed from piled earth and sod.