What makes this particular ringfort worth pausing over is not its scale, though its east-to-west diameter of 37.5 metres is respectable enough, but the fact that a working quarry has eaten into its south-eastern edge. The encroachment is a reminder of how routinely these monuments have been treated as inconveniences rather than archaeology, their boundaries negotiable whenever stone or ground was needed for more pressing purposes.

Ringforts, sometimes called raths, were the predominant form of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, typically enclosing a farmstead and its ancillary structures within a raised bank that served as much as a marker of status and territory as a defensive barrier. The bank here may originally have been faced with stone, a technique known as revetment that gave the earthwork a more formal, finished appearance. More intriguing still is the souterrain recorded in the interior. These are underground stone-lined passages or chambers, built during the early medieval period and associated with storage, refuge, or both; their precise function is still debated by archaeologists. The entrance to the ringfort faces north-east, a common enough orientation but one that would have been a deliberate choice for whoever constructed it. The monument is described as being in fair condition, meaning the essential form survives despite the quarry damage to the south-east.