From the outside it reads as a simple grass bank, but the geometry is deliberate and ancient: a near-perfect circle roughly thirty metres across, enclosed by an earthen bank rising to one and a half metres. A narrow gap just under one and a half metres wide opens to the north-east, which is thought in many ringforts to have served as the original entrance.

Raths, also known as ringforts, are the most common archaeological monument type in Ireland, built primarily during the early medieval period, roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries. They functioned as enclosed farmsteads, the bank and any accompanying ditch providing a degree of protection for a family and their livestock rather than serving any grand military purpose. Most were the homes of ordinary farming families, though the size and elaboration of a given example can suggest something about the status of its occupants. This one sits on a gentle north-facing slope, which is a slightly less favoured aspect than the south-facing sites that dominate the landscape, and the interior now carries a planting of conifers along the northern bank, a relatively recent addition that has altered the internal character of the enclosure without obscuring its overall form.