A rath, as this type of ringfort is also known, was typically a farmstead enclosed for protection and status rather than a full military fortification, and this one follows the form closely: a roughly circular interior some 28 metres across, ringed by a raised bank, a fosse or external ditch, and a second outer bank beyond that.

The earthwork has survived well enough to give a clear sense of its original layout. The inner bank still rises to about 0.75 metres on its interior face and 1.6 metres on the outside, and the fosse measures 3.5 metres wide. A second, lower bank runs around the outside of the ditch, though it disappears along the north-east to south-east arc of the circuit. At the north-east, a causewayed entrance 6 metres wide breaks the line of the earthworks, where the fosse was left uncut to allow passage across it. This kind of raised causeway approach is a recurring feature in Irish ringforts and gives a reasonable indication of how the original occupants moved in and out of the enclosure. The site does carry one modern intrusion: a denuded field wall cuts east to west through the interior, a reminder that farmland management rarely paused for archaeology.