That alone sets it apart. Most ringforts, the circular enclosed farmsteads built in their thousands across Ireland during the early medieval period, survive as intact or partially intact rings in fields, their banks and ditches readable as continuous loops. Here, an eight-metre-wide roadway has sliced the enclosure in two, and a drain runs alongside it to the north with a farm track pressing in from the south. The monument endures in spite of this, but it takes a moment to mentally reconstruct what was once a single unified space.

The ringfort sits on a gentle south-west-facing slope in pasture land. It is roughly circular, measuring 33 metres from east to west, and its defining features survive in unequal portions. An earthen bank, still standing to an internal height of around 0.4 metres, traces the north-west and north-east to east portions of the circuit. Elsewhere, a scarp, essentially a slope cut into the ground rather than a built-up bank, carries the line of the enclosure around the north-north-west to north-east arc and again from the east-south-east around to the west-south-west. Outside the surviving bank in the northern half of the enclosure, and also beyond the scarp to the south-east, a waterlogged fosse remains. A fosse is simply a ditch, and this one reaches a depth of 1.3 metres where it is best preserved, still holding water, which is part of why it has lasted.