What survives above ground is a curving arc of low earthwork, roughly 32 metres in length, running from the south-southwest to the north across a west-facing slope at Belrose. That gentle rise in the land, easy to miss among tilled fields, is nearly all that remains of what would once have been a roughly circular enclosure, the kind known in Irish as a rath, built to define and defend a farmstead sometime during the early medieval period, broadly between the fifth and twelfth centuries.

Beneath the surface, however, the site holds something more intact. A souterrain survives in the interior, a souterrain being an underground stone-lined passage or chamber, typically associated with ringforts and used for storage, refuge, or both. These subterranean structures are found across Ireland in their thousands, often outlasting the earthworks above them precisely because the plough cannot reach them. The combination here, a levelled enclosure with a souterrain still present below, is a fairly common pattern on agricultural land where repeated cultivation has gradually erased the visible boundary while leaving the buried element undisturbed. The site sits on sloping ground that would have offered good drainage and a clear outlook to the west, both practical considerations for whoever chose to settle here.