That asymmetry, modest on the inside and imposing from without, is characteristic of how these enclosures were designed: not merely as boundaries but as statements of presence, visible for some distance across the surrounding pasture.

A ringfort, or rath, is a roughly circular enclosed settlement of early medieval date, typically used as a farmstead and defended by one or more earthen banks and ditches. This one is defined by a stone-faced earthen bank enclosing a circular area of about 42.4 metres in diameter, with an external fosse, a defensive ditch, approximately half a metre deep still surviving. The entrance, as noted by Hartnett in 1939, faces west. Within the interior there is also a possible souterrain, an underground stone-lined passage or chamber associated with early medieval settlement, sometimes used for storage or refuge. The combination of a well-preserved bank, a readable fosse, a documented entrance orientation, and a potential subterranean feature makes this a structurally informative example of a site type that, while common across Ireland, is rarely so legible in its individual components.