Ringforts, known in Irish as raths, are roughly circular enclosures built during the early medieval period, typically between the fifth and twelfth centuries, and used as farmsteads by families of some local standing. They are among the most common archaeological monument types in Ireland, numbering in the tens of thousands. What makes this particular example worth a closer look is not grandeur but incompleteness: part of its enclosing earthwork was levelled around 1980, within living memory, leaving an uneven record in the soil.

The site measures roughly 33.8 metres east to west and 29.3 metres northwest to southeast, making it a modestly sized but reasonably proportioned example of the type. What remains intact runs from the north around to the east-southeast and from the southwest around to the west-northwest. In those sections, a scarped edge, essentially a cut or shaped slope in the ground, rises to about 1.35 metres high and extends some 4.5 metres in width. Beyond that edge lies an external fosse, a defensive ditch, descending to a depth of 0.35 metres, and beyond that again a counterscarp bank, the low ridge thrown up on the outer side of the ditch, standing one metre high on both its inner and outer faces. On the eastern side, this counterscarp bank is flat-topped and around three metres wide. The interior of the enclosure is level and lies under ordinary pasture grass. The survey was compiled by Denis Power and uploaded in August 2011.

The site is in agricultural use, so access would depend on landowner permission. Because the earthworks are relatively low-lying and grassed over, they read best in low winter light, when raking sunshine from the south or west throws even gentle ground features into shadow and makes the surviving scarps and banks legible in a way that summer growth tends to obscure. Walking the perimeter, the transition between the surviving earthwork and the levelled section is noticeable, a sudden flattening where the enclosing element simply stops. That contrast, between the careful shaping of the ground that someone once judged worth doing and the equally deliberate removal of part of it four decades ago, is the detail that lingers.