The field boundaries that once surrounded it have been cleared away, which means the ringfort now reads as a slightly isolated presence, a deliberate circle in an otherwise unremarkable stretch of farmland.

This is a rath, the most common type of early medieval enclosure in Ireland, typically dating from roughly the sixth to the twelfth century and used as a defended farmstead by a family of some local standing. The bank here encloses a roughly circular area of about 30 metres north to south and 29 metres east to west, with a shallow external fosse, or ditch, running around the outside. The fosse would originally have reinforced the bank by providing both the material to build it and an additional obstacle to livestock or unwanted visitors. A gap roughly 10 metres wide in the bank to the east-north-east marks what was almost certainly the original entrance, a detail that survives clearly enough to give the whole structure a legible geometry even from ground level.