Three other ringforts lie within roughly 200 metres of it, clustered on and around the same gently rising ground near Rathtrim, suggesting that whoever settled this hill in the early medieval period was not alone for long. The site sits on a northeast-facing slope near the crest of a low but noticeable hill, the kind of position that rewards a small community with visibility and drainage in equal measure.

A ringfort, sometimes called a rath, is a roughly circular or oval enclosure defined by one or more earthen or stone banks, built primarily as a farmstead during the early medieval period, broadly between the fifth and twelfth centuries. This particular example is bivallate, meaning it has two concentric banks rather than one, which generally indicates a settlement of some local importance. When surveyors examined it in 1972, they found an oval area measuring about 26 metres northeast to southwest and 24 metres northwest to southeast, enclosed by two widely spaced banks of earth and stone with no clear evidence of a ditch between them. The inner bank retained traces of stone revetment on both its interior and exterior faces, a construction technique in which a facing of stone stabilises an earthen bank. Several large stones from the outer revetment remained in place on the eastern side. The western arc of the outer bank may preserve the original entrance. Inside the enclosure, the earthwork traces of three possible house sites survive as low banks. By the time the Ordnance Survey recorded it in 1837, the monument was already intersected by a townland boundary; the revised 1913 survey shows a trackway cutting through the northwest corner along the same line. That trackway eventually became a modern stone wall, which by the time of the 1972 description had removed all visible trace of the enclosure along its northwest arc. A small mound of unknown purpose sits between the two banks on the northern side, noted but unexplained.