Its recorded dimensions, approximately 43 metres north to south and 42 metres east to west, are consistent with a rath, the type of earthen ringfort that served as a farmstead enclosure during the early medieval period, typically enclosed by one or more banks and ditches. This one has two earthen banks with an intervening fosse, the term for a ditch cut between defensive or enclosing earthworks. What complicates the picture is that the fosse is only clearly visible along the western to northern arc; elsewhere, the site has been carved up by field boundaries.

The earthwork sits at a point where several townland boundaries converge. A stream marking the boundary with Fulmort runs 80 metres to the north-east, while field fences marking the boundary with Knockmorris cut directly through the site from the south-east and again from the south-west. This intersection of later agricultural boundaries with the monument has created some interpretive difficulty. Investigators Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien noted that the site has been proposed as a barrow, a burial mound rather than a habitation enclosure, though the internal ditch they observed appears more likely to relate to the townland boundary than to any funerary construction. A second ringfort, recorded separately, lies just 190 metres to the south-east, which at least suggests this part of Westmeath was well settled during the early medieval centuries.

The site is not dramatically visible from a distance, and the field fences that bisect it mean the earthworks read as fragmented on the ground. The clearest indication of the original enclosing circuit survives on the western and northern sides, where the fosse remains legible. The interior slopes gently from west to east, following the natural gradient of the hillock on which it was built.