The site sits roughly 280 metres west-northwest of the northern shore of Lough Derravaragh, a lake better known in Irish mythology as the place where the Children of Lír were transformed into swans. The ringfort itself is a roughly circular enclosure with an internal diameter of around 28 metres and an external diameter of 48 metres, its boundary defined by a scarp, a fosse (a defensive ditch), and what may be an outer bank. That possible outer bank is significant: if confirmed, it would make this a bivallate ringfort, meaning one with two concentric enclosing elements rather than the single bank-and-ditch arrangement more commonly seen across the Irish countryside.

Ringforts are among the most numerous archaeological monument types in Ireland, with estimates ranging into the tens of thousands, and most date to the early medieval period, roughly the fifth to twelfth centuries. They served as enclosed farmsteads, the circular bank and ditch marking the boundary of a family's domestic space and providing some degree of security for livestock. The southern arc of this particular example has been cut through by the driveway of a modern house, which means the monument's circuit is no longer fully intact at ground level. What survives is still legible, though, and the outline of the enclosure shows clearly on aerial imagery from the early 2010s, with a fainter trace visible in slightly earlier imagery from the mid-2000s. That gradual clarification across different image sets suggests the earthworks are subtle rather than dramatic, the kind of feature that resolves into meaning only once you know what you are looking at.