A local roadway curves noticeably to the west and northwest to avoid the site, a small but telling sign that the earthwork has long been understood as something not to be disturbed. Ringforts, sometimes called raths, are enclosed circular settlements typically dating from the early medieval period, built with earthen banks and ditches to define a farmstead and offer a degree of protection. This one sits on a north-facing slope in pasture, measuring roughly 40 metres north to south and 38 metres east to west, with its earthen bank still standing over two metres high on the exterior in places.

When Bowman recorded the site in 1934, it was described as a double-ramparted fort on land belonging to a T. Buckley, with around one-third of the outer rampart already levelled and the remainder standing at approximately seven feet high. That outer bank has continued to weather since, though the inner bank retains a height of just over a metre on the interior. An external fosse, the ditch that would originally have reinforced the bank's defensive character, survives around the northwest, becoming very shallow as it continues toward the southeast. There is a gap of around six metres in the bank to the west, likely the original entrance, and a narrower opening to the north. One detail on the 1842 Ordnance Survey six-inch map adds an unexpected layer: a limekiln is marked on the southwest bank, suggesting that at some point the structure was put to agricultural use. Lime kilns were used to burn limestone and produce quicklime for fertilising fields, and their presence on or near older earthworks is not unusual in Cork, where both the raw material and the need were plentiful. An east-west laneway has since clipped the southern edge of the enclosure, a more recent intrusion than the kiln, and one that quietly compounds the attrition the site has already absorbed over the decades.