Cropmarks, the faint differential in how grass or grain grows over buried features, trace out the circular outline of what archaeologists classify as a bivallate enclosure, meaning it was once ringed by two concentric banks and ditches rather than one. That double boundary suggests a settlement of some status in early medieval Ireland, when ringforts served as the enclosed farmsteads of farming families across the Irish countryside.

The site sits on broadly level ground with a gentle slope towards the north-east. Aerial photographs, including a set of digital images captured in 2006, reveal the enclosure clearly enough to measure: an interior diameter of roughly 35 metres and an outer diameter of around 45 metres. What makes the arrangement particularly interesting is that a second rath adjoins it directly, tacked onto the southern perimeter as though added at a later stage or to serve a separate but related purpose. Paired or conjoined ringforts are not unknown in Ireland, but they remain comparatively uncommon and usually hint at something more complex than a single farmstead in isolation. Archaeological monitoring carried out around 50 metres to the north-east found no material connected to the site, so the buried archaeology, whatever it amounts to, appears confined to the enclosure itself.