Most ringforts, the circular enclosed farmsteads that dot the Irish countryside in their thousands and date broadly to the early medieval period, were built with a single bank and ditch. This one was constructed with two concentric banks and a ditch on the outer side, a type known as bivallate, suggesting either an occupant with greater resources than most, a heightened concern for security, or simply a piece of ground worth defending carefully. It sits on a natural rise in otherwise flat to undulating land, which would have made the additional earthwork all the more imposing when the banks were fresh and sharp.

The structure itself is well defined even now. The circular interior measures twenty-seven metres in diameter, enclosed first by an internal bank some five metres wide and just under a metre high, then by an external bank slightly narrower at four and a half metres wide but the same height, with a ditch two metres wide running along its outer edge. When the antiquarian W. G. Wood-Martin examined the site in the late nineteenth century, he noted no evidence of a burial or a midden, the term for a domestic refuse deposit that can be a useful indicator of long habitation. The absence of both suggests the enclosure was not a burial ground and that, if people lived here, they left little behind in the archaeological record to confirm it.