The bank, running from the south-west to the north, still rises to about 1.3 metres on its exterior face, while the interior sits just 0.6 metres above the surrounding ground. Elsewhere the enclosure edge softens into a scarp, difficult to follow through the long grass. A field boundary has bitten into the southern side, cutting away part of what was once a roughly circular form of about 20 metres across. Ringforts, the most common type of early medieval monument in Ireland, were typically earthwork enclosures surrounding a farmstead, built by farming families of varying social rank between roughly the sixth and tenth centuries. This one is modest in size but complete enough, in its degraded way, to read as an enclosure in the landscape.

The site has a small paper trail that gives it a little texture. In 1842 the Ordnance Survey mapped it as a hachured circular enclosure with a diameter of around 22 metres, the hatching indicating the surveyors recognised a raised feature. By the time later editions of the six-inch map were made in 1904 and 1938, the full circuit had already partially disappeared, with only an arc of bank surviving to be marked. Writing in 1934, a researcher named Bowman recorded two forts on the land of a S. Walsh in this townland, describing both as single-ramparted, with diameters of approximately 35 and 31 yards respectively. A few years later, in 1937, a Broker also noted the pair, and this example is likely the one he associated with a field known locally as the Faill field, a name that may preserve some older usage connected to the edge or cliff of the ground falling away toward the stream to the north.