What makes it immediately unusual is its layered defensive architecture: two concentric earthen banks separated by a fosse, the ditch-like trench that would once have made the entire enclosure considerably harder to breach. Together they describe a roughly circular raised area stretching approximately 47 metres east to west and 44 metres north to south, dimensions that suggest a settlement of some substance rather than a modest farmstead.

Ringforts, also known as raths, are the most common monument type in the Irish landscape, built predominantly between the sixth and tenth centuries as enclosed farmsteads for the early medieval rural population. A double-banked example like this one carried extra social weight; the additional circuit of bank and fosse typically indicated a household of higher status. Here, the inner bank is nearly seven metres wide and rises around two and a half metres on its outer face, while an outer bank of similar height runs parallel beyond the intervening fosse, which is roughly five metres across. The fosse itself remains largely intact along its south-south-west to north-north-east arc, now thickly furred with fern, though recent re-cutting has disturbed both flanking bank bases and the fosse floor along the opposite axis. There are also two breaks in the outer bank, one to the south-south-west and a wider one to the north-north-east, which may have been opened or widened in relatively recent times. Within the level interior, obscured by vegetation, lies a probable souterrain, the underground stone-lined passage that early medieval communities used variously for refuge, food storage, or access between structures. A curvilinear field boundary follows the outer edge of the bank to the west, and an open drain runs along the north side, both of which hint at how later agricultural activity has shaped itself around a structure too substantial to simply plough away.