This particular example measures roughly 30 metres east to west and 29 metres north to south, sitting on a south-south-west-facing slope, its interior tilting gently downhill in the same direction.

The earthwork takes the form typical of a rath, which is the Irish term for a ringfort defined by an earthen bank and external fosse rather than stone walling. Here the bank survives to an internal height of about 0.3 metres and an external height of 1.2 metres, with a fosse, or surrounding ditch, roughly half a metre deep. These modest dimensions are not unusual; centuries of farming have reduced many such banks considerably from their original scale. What is telling about this one is that the north-north-west to north-east section of the bank has been absorbed into the modern field fence system, a common fate for earthworks that remained visible and useful long after their original purpose was forgotten. The bank also has numerous gaps, the result of stock movement, agricultural clearance, or simple neglect across the intervening centuries. Ringforts of this type were generally built and occupied during the early medieval period, roughly the fifth to twelfth centuries, and functioned as enclosed homesteads for farming families, the bank and fosse providing a degree of security for livestock as much as for people.