Most ringforts, the circular earthwork enclosures built in early medieval Ireland typically as defended farmsteads, describe a reasonably faithful circle. This one, set on a gentle rise in open grassland, is D-shaped, measuring roughly 26 metres north to south and 20 metres east to west, enclosed by an earthen bank that survives only in part.

The damage to the perimeter is considerable. Quarrying has eaten away the monument from the east-northeast round through the south to the west-southwest, removing a substantial arc of what would once have been a continuous boundary. Field fences further cut across the monument on its eastern and northern sides. Despite this, the interior preserves two features of real interest. At the centre are the remains of a conjoined hut site, visible now as a pair of depressions in the earth: a circular hollow roughly 3.2 metres across and 0.7 metres deep, and a smaller rectangular hollow adjoining it to the northwest, measuring about 1.8 by 1.5 metres and slightly deeper at 0.8 metres. These sunken outlines represent the floors or foundations of structures once used by whoever lived within the enclosure. In the southern quadrant, a circular steep-sided depression with a longer depression running northward from it may be the remains of a souterrain, an underground stone-lined passage used in early medieval Ireland for storage or refuge, though this identification has not been confirmed. A second ringfort lies approximately 140 metres to the northwest, suggesting this part of Westmeath once supported a small cluster of early medieval settlement.