The boundary runs on a north-south axis, bisecting a structure that was already old when those divisions were first formalised, treating the prehistoric earthwork simply as another feature of the ground to be crossed.

The ringfort itself sits just below the brow of a low hillock on an east-facing slope, a position that would have offered a degree of natural elevation without full exposure to the ridge. A rath, as this type of site is known, is a roughly circular enclosure defined by an earthen bank and ditch, used during the early medieval period in Ireland as a defended farmstead for a single family or small household. This example measures around 23 metres in diameter, enclosed by an earth and stone bank roughly 3 metres wide, standing between half a metre on the interior face and up to a metre and a half on the exterior. An entrance gap just under 2 metres wide opens to the east, which is the most common orientation for such sites. A second ringfort lies a short distance to the south, suggesting that this part of the Gorteeny townland once supported more than one such enclosed settlement, close enough to suggest some relationship between the two communities, though what that relationship was remains unclear.