The site is a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, a type of enclosed farmstead built predominantly between the sixth and tenth centuries and once so common across Ireland that tens of thousands survive in varying states of preservation. This one is double-banked, meaning it had two concentric earthen ramparts separated by a fosse, a defensive ditch, with a further external fosse beyond the outer bank. That arrangement placed its original occupants inside a system of concentric obstacles that would have served as both a practical barrier and a statement of status. Single-banked raths were the norm; a second bank and ditch signalled something worth protecting, or someone with the resources to build it.

The site measures roughly 48 metres east to west and 46 metres north to south, making it a reasonably substantial example. The inner bank still stands about a metre high internally, though it is heavily overgrown and broken to the north by a cattle gap, that most pragmatic of agricultural interventions. The outer bank, at around 1.5 metres, is the more prominent of the two, though it has been absorbed into the modern field fence system and runs in an almost straight line between its west-south-west and north-west points, its original curve flattened by centuries of practical reuse. The external fosse reaches a maximum depth of around 0.8 metres where it survives to the south-south-east and west-south-west. A formal entrance passes through both banks to the south, the inner gap measuring two metres wide and the outer a more generous four. Perhaps most intriguing is a circular, saucer-shaped raised area roughly 25 metres in diameter sitting at the centre of the interior, defined by a low scarp. This central platform, along with a possible souterrain recorded in the western quadrant of the interior, hints at a more complex internal arrangement than the surface alone suggests. A souterrain is an underground stone-lined passage, typically associated with storage or refuge, and their presence within ringforts is not uncommon, though this one remains unexcavated and its extent unknown.