The enclosure is roughly circular, measuring about 32.5 metres on its longer axis, and its defences were never simple. What survives suggests a site that was at some point more substantial than it first appears, with earthworks layered in a way that rewards careful looking rather than a passing glance.

A ringfort, or rath, is an enclosed farmstead of early medieval date, typically defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches and used as a defended homestead for a farming family. This one sits on an east-facing slope, its perimeter formed partly by an earthen bank rising to around two metres and partly by a scarp, a cut or shaped slope in the natural ground, reaching 2.7 metres in places. An external fosse, the ditch that once ran around the outside, survives to the north but has been filled in along much of its southern arc, though its line remains clearly legible in the ground. Low rises to the north-north-east and east-north-east hint at the ghost of a second bank, and an earlier survey carried out by University College Cork recorded more of that outer bank still standing. A narrow gap of about one metre in the eastern bank almost certainly marks the original entrance. Inside the enclosure, the ground is crossed by cultivation ridges running roughly east-west, the traces of later agricultural use that post-date the fort itself, suggesting the interior was eventually pressed into service as field strips long after its defensive purpose had passed.