Its circular form, roughly 28.5 metres across on its northeast to southwest axis, is now readable mainly through a low arc of field boundary wall and the ghost of a scarp that curves around the northwest to northeast edge. Together these features trace out what was once a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort enclosed by an earthen bank and ditch, the most common type of Early Medieval settlement in Ireland, typically the farmstead of a single family of some local standing.

What makes the site quietly compelling is the degree to which the boundary wall has been absorbed into the working agricultural landscape. At around two metres wide and half a metre high, it is a modest structure, and it has been densely colonised by blackthorn and brambles. Large boulders are built into its fabric, suggesting either that the original enclosure made use of whatever stone lay close to hand, or that later field clearance added material to an already ancient boundary. The two purposes, ancient enclosure and modern field wall, have become indistinguishable from one another, which is itself a small history of how rural Ireland has layered one era of land use directly onto another.