Sitting on level ground above a south-facing slope, still in agricultural use as pasture, it has been absorbed into the everyday rhythms of farming to the point where cattle gaps have been cut into its earthen bank to the northeast and southwest. That ordinariness is, in a way, the point: this is an early medieval enclosure, probably dating from roughly the sixth to tenth centuries, that has never quite left the landscape it was built into.

A ringfort, sometimes called a rath, is an enclosed circular or oval farmstead of the early medieval period, typically defined by one or more earthen banks and external ditches. This example measures approximately 32 metres north to south and 30 metres east to west, enclosed by an earthen bank still standing around 1.6 metres high, with a shallow external fosse, or ditch, of about half a metre depth. What distinguishes it from many comparable sites is the stone-facing preserved along sections of the bank, running externally from south-southeast to east and internally along the southeast side, suggesting a degree of construction effort that went beyond a simple earthen mound. A possible original entrance survives on the southeast side, around 2.8 metres wide. Inside, the stone foundations of two rectangular hut sites remain visible: one in the northwest quadrant measuring roughly 6.4 by 6 metres, and a second adjoining the east-southeast bank at approximately 5 by 6 metres. These foundations are the most direct evidence of the domestic life once contained here, small roofed structures where an early medieval farming household would have lived and worked within the protection of the enclosing bank.