What survives is roughly 35 metres of arc running from north to south-south-east, the remnant of a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, which was a circular or near-circular enclosure defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches. Ringforts were built predominantly during the early medieval period, roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries, and served as farmsteads, the defended homesteads of farming families rather than military fortifications in any grand sense.

The surviving bank here stands only about 42 centimetres above the surrounding ground and is accompanied by an external fosse, a shallow ditch dug to provide the material for the bank, which drops roughly 68 centimetres below the field surface. Together they form the eastern side of a small field, effectively absorbed into the agricultural landscape rather than set apart from it. To the west, within the field boundary, traces of a further bank and fosse are still just about detectable, though heavily overgrown. What was once a complete enclosure has been reduced over centuries of farming to these partial impressions, its outline blurred by vegetation and time.