Most early medieval ringforts have been worn down by centuries of farming, drainage work, or simple neglect, which makes this one worth pausing over. The bank and its accompanying fosse, the external ditch dug to reinforce the enclosure's boundary, survive particularly well along the southern to south-western arc and at the north-east, giving the monument a legibility that many comparable sites have lost.

A rath, to use the Irish term, was typically a farmstead of the early medieval period, perhaps occupied between the sixth and twelfth centuries, enclosed by one or more earthen banks for the protection of livestock and household. This example measures 36 metres in diameter, a modest but typical scale for a single-family enclosure. What distinguishes its condition slightly is the survival of that fosse, since the external ditch was often the first element to be ploughed or filled. Quarrying activity has taken place just outside the monument to the south, close enough to have posed a risk to the structure, though the earthwork itself appears to have come through largely intact.