The site reveals itself only from the air, through what archaeologists call a cropmark, a phenomenon where buried foundations or ditches affect how crops grow above them, producing faint but legible outlines when viewed from altitude. In this case, the cropmark traces a bivallate circular enclosure, meaning a roughly circular area defined by two concentric banks or ditches, with a maximum external diameter of around fifty metres.

Ringforts of this kind are among the most characteristic monuments of early medieval Ireland, typically dating from roughly the sixth to the twelfth century and serving as enclosed farmsteads for a single family or small community. The two-bank form, sometimes called a rath, generally suggests a site of slightly higher status than the simpler single-bank variety, though without excavation it is impossible to say much more about who built it or how it was used. What is known comes from aerial photographs, including the Ordnance Survey Ireland series from 2000, which confirmed the cropmark pattern recorded in earlier survey work. The enclosure sits quietly beneath whatever agricultural activity now covers the slope, its geometry preserved in the soil long after any surface trace has gone.