The enclosure, roughly 28 metres north to south and 27.4 metres east to west, sits on a gentle north-west-facing slope in pasture land, and for the most part it looks like a fairly typical rath, the local term for a ringfort built from earth rather than stone. These were the enclosed farmsteads of early medieval Ireland, home to a single family and their livestock, defined by a circular bank and a surrounding ditch. But on its north-eastern side, the bank appears to run straight rather than curving, giving that arc of the enclosure a flattened, almost angular quality. Ordnance Survey maps from 1842, 1905, and 1936 all record the shape as oval rather than circular, suggesting this irregularity is not a recent distortion.

The earthen bank still stands to an internal height of around 1.55 metres, with an external fosse, or ditch, that reaches roughly 1.1 metres deep. A causeway survives at the entrance on the south-south-east side, where a gap of just over four metres would once have allowed passage into the enclosure. The fosse has been deepened and become waterlogged along the south-east to north-east stretch, which hints at drainage or land management interventions over the years. More visibly damaging, the top portion of the bank along the south-south-west to east-north-east arc has been removed by machinery, with the spoil dumped back into the interior of the fort. It is a familiar story for Irish ringforts: a structure that survived a thousand or more years of agriculture was partially undone within living memory by the same pressure that preserved it, the working of the land.