Field clearance boulders, piled by farmers along the southern arc of its enclosing bank, sit alongside hawthorn and blackthorn that have taken root in the scarp, blurring the boundary between deliberate monument and working landscape. The two elements have become almost indistinguishable, which is part of what makes the place worth attention.

A ringfort, or rath, is a roughly circular enclosure defined by an earthen bank and ditch, typically built during the early medieval period in Ireland as a farmstead for a single family or small community. This one takes a broadly oval form, measuring approximately 21.5 metres east to west and 25.5 metres north to south. The enclosing scarp rises to around 1.5 metres on the northern side and 2.3 metres on the southern, with a slope width of roughly 3.5 metres. At the south-east, a ramp-like slump in the bank, about 3 metres across, is thought to mark the position of the original entrance, a common placement in Irish ringforts, where the entrance often faced the rising sun. The terrain around it is sharply undulating, and the fort sits on one of its more prominent rises, giving views to the south and north-west, though the landscape closes in quickly enough that those views do not extend far. Within roughly 100 metres to the south-south-east, a possible burial mound occupies another part of the same landscape, and a second rath is also visible from the fort, suggesting this corner of Mayo was once more densely settled and ceremonially marked than the present quiet pasture might suggest.