This is a rath, the most common type of ringfort in Ireland, typically built during the early medieval period as a farmstead enclosure, combining domestic function with a degree of defensive presence. The bank here, composed of earth and stone, encloses a circular interior roughly 25.9 metres in diameter, and varies between 4.2 and 5.5 metres in width. On the south-south-west side, the bank has been largely levelled, surviving now only as a low scarp about 0.8 metres high, suggesting centuries of agricultural pressure on this otherwise well-preserved feature.

Along the western arc of the monument, from west through north-west, a narrow flat-bottomed fosse survives at the outer foot of the bank. A fosse is simply a ditch, often dug to supply material for the bank beside it and to reinforce the sense of enclosure. Here it is a modest feature, just 2.3 metres wide and shallow, with a low counterscarp bank on its outer edge. A gap of roughly three metres in the bank on the eastern side is a modern intrusion, though it is thought to preserve approximately the line of the original entrance, which in Irish ringforts was typically a simple gap or causeway facing away from prevailing wind and weather. Perhaps most intriguing is the possible souterrain recorded within the interior. Souterrains were underground stone-lined passages or chambers, commonly associated with early medieval settlement sites in Ireland, and used variously for storage, refuge, or as places of concealment. Whether this one survives intact beneath the surface is not fully established.