A ringfort, or rath, was typically a circular enclosed farmstead used during the early medieval period, roughly the fifth to twelfth centuries, defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches that offered both practical enclosure and a degree of social status to whoever lived within. Here, the raised circular platform measures 33.5 metres in diameter, and the enclosing bank of earth and stone still stands between one and one and a half metres high, with a width ranging from 5.8 to 7.5 metres. A shallow external fosse, the ditch that would originally have run around the outside of the bank, survives in part, though it has been infilled along its south-western to north-north-western arc.

The site carries the marks of incremental change and partial loss that are common to earthworks that have spent centuries in farmed landscapes. Drystone walling added to the outer face of the bank on its western and north-north-western side is of modern construction, a later intervention that sits visibly against the original earthwork. A survey carried out in 1976 noted the presence of a low outer bank running from the south around to the west, which would have given the monument a slight bivallate character, meaning two concentric enclosing elements rather than one. That outer feature is no longer identifiable on the ground. What does survive intact is the original entrance, marked by a gap of 2.3 metres in the bank on the eastern side, the orientation typical of many Irish ringforts, which frequently faced east or south-east.