Sitting on a gentle rise with open views in all directions and a pond just to the north, the site was clearly chosen with some care. Ringforts, known also as raths, were the standard form of enclosed farmstead in early medieval Ireland, typically consisting of a raised circular bank, sometimes with an outer ditch called a fosse, enclosing a domestic space. This one fits that tradition, broadly, though it has been losing the battle against time and agricultural convenience for centuries.

The earthwork is roughly oval in plan, measuring about 35 metres northwest to southeast and 31 metres northeast to southwest, dimensions recorded on the revised 1913 edition of the Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, where it appears enclosed by a field boundary. By 1970, when someone took the trouble to describe it on the ground, the enclosing bank survived best along the western and northern arc, while elsewhere it had been reduced to little more than a scarp, a low eroded slope rather than a proper upstanding bank. There is no visible fosse at all, which may mean it was never dug or, more likely, that any ditch has long since been filled and levelled. Along the southern and western edges, the scarp has been tidied into service as part of a modern fence line, the ancient boundary pressed into mundane agricultural use. Aerial photography shows the monument most clearly as a tree-planted oval, the ring of vegetation now doing the work the earthwork itself can barely manage.