It represents only a fragment of what was once a complete ringfort, a type of circular enclosed settlement that was common across early medieval Ireland, typically used as a farmstead by a single family or small community. The surviving arc runs roughly southeast to northwest, measuring about 23 metres in length, and both ends butt up against a more recent field boundary of earth and stone. That modern boundary is, in a quiet irony, the reason so little of the original monument remains.

Local memory holds that the rest of the enclosing bank existed on the northeastern side of the field boundary "long ago", though nothing of it is visible today at ground level. What does survive is modest in scale, the bank reaching only around 0.85 metres in external height and 3.5 metres in width, partially buried under gorse and briars. More interesting is what lies within it: a souterrain, which is an underground stone-lined passage or chamber, often associated with early medieval raths and thought to have served for storage or as a place of refuge. The souterrain opens from the inner face of the surviving bank, and its presence suggests that whoever built and used this enclosure invested more than minimal effort in its construction, even if the earthworks themselves are now largely gone.