The ring is almost perfectly circular, about 31 metres across, and the earthen bank that defines it still stands roughly two metres high after well over a thousand years of weather and agricultural indifference. Around its outer base, generations of farmers have dumped field clearance stones, the slow accumulation of someone else's tidying-up pressed against the ancient fabric of the thing.

Structures of this kind, known as raths or ringforts, were the standard farmstead type of early medieval Ireland, built and occupied roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries. They were domestic enclosures rather than military fortifications in any serious sense, though the bank and the shallow external ditch, called a fosse, would have discouraged casual livestock theft and marked out a family's territory with some authority. What makes this particular example quietly interesting is the possible souterrain in its interior. A souterrain is an underground stone-lined passage or chamber, typically associated with ringforts, and thought to have served variously as a refuge, a cool store for dairy produce, or both. The one here has been noted but not fully investigated, which means a significant portion of the site's story remains literally underground. A field boundary running along the northern edge of the enclosure suggests that later agricultural organisation has worked around the fort rather than through it, which is itself a small sign of the quiet persistence these features have shown in the landscape.