The platform, roughly 30 metres north to south and around 22 metres east to west where it survives intact, still stands about 1.4 metres high at its eastern edge. That qualification, where it survives, matters: the western side has been lost to land reclamation works, shaved back to accommodate the demands of tillage. What remains is a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, a type of enclosed farmstead typically built during the early medieval period, roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries, when such earthen enclosures served as the homes and farmyards of rural families across Ireland.

The knoll itself sits on a slight terrace partway up the eastern slope of a valley, with the land falling away steeply to the east before climbing again. To the north, east, and west, tillage fields press close, and a roughly east-west field boundary to the south marks the edge where grassland begins. The position was well chosen by whoever raised it: the monument commands good views in three directions, a consideration that mattered as much for keeping an eye on cattle as for any grander strategic purpose. Today the platform is covered in scrub, excluded from the ploughed ground around it, a small island of unworked earth in an otherwise cultivated landscape.