These enclosures, sometimes called raths, were the farmsteads of early Irish society, typically dating from roughly the fifth to the twelfth centuries, defined by earthen banks and ditches and used for both domestic life and the protection of livestock. This particular example is modest in its surviving form: a slightly raised circular area approximately 27 metres in diameter, with a low bank of earth and stone surviving along its north-eastern arc, standing only about half a metre high and a little over three and a half metres wide. Elsewhere, the boundary survives only as a scarp, a slope cut into the ground rather than a built-up bank, and there is no fosse, meaning the enclosing ditch that commonly accompanies such sites is either absent or no longer traceable.

What gives the site a quietly puzzling quality is the detail that the original entrance is no longer recognisable. Ringfort entrances, usually simple gaps in the bank, are often the feature that survives most legibly, so their absence here points to some degree of disturbance or gradual erosion over the centuries. A disused field boundary running roughly north-west to south-east now cuts across the interior, dividing it into two unequal portions, suggesting that at some point the enclosure was absorbed into the working agricultural landscape and its ancient geometry overwritten by later land management. Most intriguing is a large stone slab measuring two metres in length and just under forty centimetres wide, sitting obliquely embedded in the turf at the eastern side of the interior. Whether it was always there, was moved from elsewhere on the site, or marks something beneath the surface is not recorded.