It measures around 38 metres across, and on its southern and western sides a wide external fosse, somewhere between four and five metres across, is still legible in the ground. A fosse, in this context, is simply a defensive ditch dug around the perimeter of an enclosure, the earth from which was typically thrown inward to build up a surrounding bank. Together, bank and fosse formed the basic anatomy of a ringfort, the most common type of early medieval settlement monument in Ireland, usually associated with farming families of some local standing.

The site sits around 300 metres west of the townland boundary with Coolbreedeen, and it was already being recorded when the Ordnance Survey produced its six-inch map series in 1840, meaning surveyors of that era considered it sufficiently distinct to mark. The more detailed twenty-five-inch revision of 1897 provided further reference points, and the monument was subsequently examined using Digital Globe orthophotos from 2011 to 2013 and a Google Earth image captured on 28 June 2018. That combination of nineteenth-century cartography and twenty-first-century aerial imaging is now standard practice for recording sites like this one, particularly where dense vegetation makes ground-level survey difficult. The record was compiled by Edmond O'Donovan and uploaded in July 2020.

The interior of the enclosure and the bank itself are heavily overgrown, which means that while the fosse remains visible from the south and west, the full circuit of the earthwork is not easily read from ground level. Visitors walking the surrounding pasture in winter or early spring, when vegetation dies back, may find the earthwork's outline somewhat clearer than in summer months. The site is on private agricultural land, so access would require the landowner's permission. There is no formal infrastructure here; what exists is an earthwork in a field, gradually being reclaimed by the kind of scrub that accumulates wherever grazing pressure eases and no one intervenes.