Set on a low, narrow ridge running north to south through open pasture, the monument takes the form of a raised circular area roughly 42 metres in diameter, enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone. The bank is modest now, around 4.6 metres wide but barely 0.3 metres high, and a 2-metre break in the south-eastern side most likely marks where the original entrance once stood.

A ringfort, or rath, is the most common type of early medieval settlement monument in Ireland, typically a farmstead enclosed by one or more earthen banks and ditches, dating broadly to between the sixth and tenth centuries. This particular example had more to it within living memory. A report from 1976 recorded a shallow external fosse, the term for a defensive ditch, along with a low outer bank beyond it, and noted the remains of a house site inside the enclosure towards the north-east. All of those features have since been levelled, most likely through agricultural activity over the intervening decades. What the 1976 report captured, then, was already a diminished version of the original; what remains today is a further reduction of that.