It occupies most of a small field, its roughly circular platform measuring around 28 metres north to south and 30 metres east to west, and what makes it quietly odd is the way the ground behaves once you are inside. The western edge is built up behind a scarp nearly two metres high, yet the interior floor drops away sharply toward the east, giving the enclosed space an unsettled, tilted quality that is easy to miss from a distance.

A ringfort, sometimes called a rath when its defences are earthen rather than stone, is an enclosed farmstead of the Early Medieval period in Ireland, typically dating from somewhere between the fifth and twelfth centuries. Thousands survive across the country, though many have been ploughed out or quietly absorbed into modern field systems. This one retains much of its original form. The stronger scarped edge runs from the south-west around to the north-north-west, standing about 1.75 metres high and roughly six metres wide at its base, while a gentler scarp continues the circuit in the opposite direction. Beyond the south-west to north-north-west arc lies an external fosse, a ditch dug to reinforce the enclosure's defences, with a flat bottom about eight metres wide and a total width of nearly sixteen metres, though it is now only around 0.4 metres deep. The fosse and much of the surrounding exterior are choked with rushes, a reliable sign of the waterlogged conditions that have both preserved the earthwork and made the land around it less worth cultivating.

Field boundaries run along the southern and eastern sides of the monument, which means the ringfort has been left largely undisturbed even as the surrounding farmland was divided and managed over the centuries. The site is on rough pasture, so the ground underfoot will be soft and uneven, particularly after wet weather, and the dense rush growth around the fosse makes the outer ditch easier to see in plan than to walk around. The interior, once you gain the higher western edge, gives a better sense of the original enclosed space, and the pronounced slope down to the east becomes much more apparent from that vantage point. The notes were compiled by Denis Power and uploaded in November 2013 as part of a survey record, which gives some indication of how recently this kind of careful field documentation has been brought together for sites that otherwise sit without signage or ceremony in the ordinary landscape.