The earthen bank that defines the enclosure measures around 32 metres north to south and 31 metres east to west, with an internal height of about 1.4 metres, enough to mark a clear boundary between what was once domestic or agricultural space and the world outside. What gives the site a slightly awkward, adaptive quality is visible in the bank to the east, which loses its curve and becomes stone-faced where it was absorbed into a field fence system at some point in its post-medieval life, a common fate for prehistoric earthworks pressed into later agricultural use.

This is a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, the most numerous monument type surviving in the Irish countryside. Raths were typically built during the early medieval period, broadly between the fifth and twelfth centuries, and functioned as enclosed farmsteads for prosperous farming families. The builders here had to contend with the hillslope: the interior has been cut into the hill on the north side and the material used to build up the south and east, creating a level platform within the bank. Gaps in the bank at the north-north-east, south, and south-south-west may represent original entrances or later breaks. More compelling is the souterrain recorded in the south-west quadrant. A souterrain is an underground stone-lined passage, typically associated with storage or refuge, and their presence within ringforts is a reliable sign of early medieval occupation rather than a later or purely agricultural use of the enclosure.