The surrounding grassland has been reclaimed for farming, and views from inside reach no further than the valley sides, giving the interior a quiet, enclosed quality that would have felt quite different in the early medieval period when such sites were active settlements.

A ringfort, sometimes called a rath, is a roughly circular enclosure defined by an earthen bank and an outer ditch, used as a farmstead and place of habitation during the early medieval period in Ireland, broadly between the fifth and twelfth centuries. This example measures approximately 47 metres north to south and 52 metres east to west internally, making it a substantial example of the type. The enclosing bank stands about one metre above the interior and two metres above the outer field level, with a flat top roughly two metres wide. Beyond it lies a fosse, the external ditch, about two metres wide and 1.2 metres deep, though this is only clearly visible on the western side, having been infilled elsewhere over the centuries. The bank itself survives best in the western quadrant; only a faint trace remains to the north, and the eastern and southern sections have been lost altogether. An entrance in the eastern quadrant may be original, though it appears to have been modified at some point, with an earthen ramp added to allow vehicle or livestock access.