Ringforts, known in Irish as raths when formed from earthen banks rather than stone, were the typical farmstead enclosures of Ireland between roughly the fifth and twelfth centuries; tens of thousands once existed across the country, though a great many have been ploughed away or otherwise erased. This one survives, just about, as a roughly circular earthwork measuring approximately 34 metres north to south and 33 metres east to west, sitting on an east-facing hillside in undulating pastureland. The interior tilts gently downhill towards the east, following the natural slope of the ground beneath it.

When the site was examined in September 1979, the picture was already one of considerable decline. The enclosing bank was described at that point as badly defaced all around, averaging only about two metres wide and one metre high when measured from the outside, with a drop of just fifty centimetres from the top of the bank to the interior. There was no sign of a fosse, the external ditch that often accompanies such earthworks, and no obvious entrance could be identified. The enclosed area had been planted with young evergreens a few years before the visit, and brambles had taken hold throughout. A fragment of stone walling was noted in the northwest section of the bank, though it was considered more likely to be a later field fence incorporated into the mound than any original structural feature of the rath itself. The site had been levelled at some point, yet even in its diminished state the circular form remained legible in the landscape.