What makes this one worth a second look is the geometry of its survival. The enclosing bank still stands to a height of around two and a half metres, and the external fosse, the defensive ditch that once ran around the outside, remains visible to the north and north-west, even though it has long since silted up. A ringfort, or rath, was typically a circular enclosure of this kind, built in the early medieval period as a defended farmstead for a single family and their livestock. The interior here has been deliberately raised on the southern side to level out the natural fall of the hillslope, a practical adjustment that also tells you something about the care and intention that went into its original construction.

The site attracted the attention of the archaeologist Seán P. Ó Ríordáin, who noted in 1933 what he interpreted as traces of a second outer rampart. If he was right, that would push this example towards the more elaborate end of the ringfort spectrum. A second concentric enclosure would have been unusual, associated in the archaeological literature with higher-status settlements rather than ordinary farmsteads. The main bank has a gap three metres wide to the north, which is likely the original entrance. A field fence running outside the bank to the east-north-east and concentric with it adds another layer of enclosure to an already layered site, though this is a later agricultural addition rather than an early medieval feature.