The site sits on a north-east-facing slope in Condonstown, with the River Flesk running roughly two hundred metres to the north-east and an extensive open view across the countryside to the north and east. That orientation was almost certainly deliberate: ringforts, the enclosed farmsteads of early medieval Ireland typically dating from around the fifth to the twelfth century, were often sited to command good sightlines while remaining on ground that drained well.

The earthwork itself is roughly circular, measuring about twenty-seven metres north to south and thirty-one metres east to west. It is defined by a scarp rising to 2.25 metres, with an earthen bank along the south-west to north-west arc reaching 1.4 metres in height, separated from an outer bank by an intervening fosse, the ditch that would have sharpened the defensive or enclosing effect of the whole structure. The outer bank still stands to an external height of 1.9 metres, and the outer fosse can be traced from east to west-north-west, dropping to a depth of around a metre. A terrace runs along the face of the scarp between north and north-east, and to the south-south-east the ground slopes down from the interior to a slight causeway crossing the inner fosse, leading to a gap some 7.2 metres wide in the outer bank. This gap is the original entrance. Just inside it, to the east, there are traces of what may be a souterrain, an underground stone-lined passage or chamber that was a common feature of Irish ringforts, used for storage, refuge, or both. The possible souterrain here has not been fully excavated or confirmed, but its suggested presence adds another layer of interest to what is already a well-preserved example of the type.