What makes this one quietly odd is its altitude and setting. Most ringforts, or raths, occupy more sheltered agricultural lowlands; a rath is an enclosed farmstead of the early medieval period, typically defined by one or more earthen banks, within which a family would have lived and kept livestock. This one, measuring just over twenty-five metres across, clings to a mountain slope where the land tilts south-east and the terrain is anything but domestic.

The enclosure is defined by an earth and stone bank on its western to south-south-eastern arc, standing around 1.4 metres high on the interior and slightly more on the exterior, and roughly five metres wide. Elsewhere the boundary becomes a scarp, where the ground itself has been cut or shaped to define the space. Two possible entrances have been identified, one at the south-east and one at the west. Trees have taken root along the existing bank and inside the enclosure, giving it a rather overgrown character. Field-clearance stones, gathered from surrounding land and dumped against the bank on the north-west and north, speak to later agricultural use of the area, layers of activity piling up against something much older. Associated with the rath are a possible hut site abutting the northern arc of the bank on the outside, and a possible souterrain, an underground stone-lined passage typically used for storage or refuge, which adds a further dimension to what was evidently a more complex settlement than the surface alone suggests.