This is a univallate rath, meaning a ringfort enclosed by a single bank and ditch, and while such sites are common across Ireland, this one has a slightly odd character. The bank is lopsided in a way that reflects the slope of the ground: on the downhill side it stands 1.7 metres high on the outside, while the uphill side presents barely any external height at all. Tucked against the outer face of the bank at the west is a small circular hut, just 3 metres across internally, sharing its tallest wall with the main enclosure. It is not a grand settlement, but it sits in a position with a long view down the valley.

When Browne and colleagues visited in 1911, they recorded a zig-zag passage through the bank at the west, a deliberately indirect entrance of the kind sometimes built into raths to slow or disorient anyone forcing their way in. That feature is no longer traceable. What is partially visible is the souterrain, an underground stone-lined passage of the sort used in early medieval Ireland for storage or concealment. It runs roughly north-northeast to south-southwest and is about 3.5 to 4 metres long and just over a metre wide, but it is almost entirely infilled with earth. A collapsed roofing slab near the southern end has opened a narrow view into the drystone-built interior. Browne et al. also noted signs of a second passage branching to the west, and possibly a third on the northern side, one of whose openings was then marked by a porthole slab, a flat stone with a circular hole cut through it used to control access between chambers. Whether any of those subsidiary passages survive intact underground remains unclear.