That positioning is itself a statement. A rath, as this type of monument is also known, is an earthen enclosure typically associated with early medieval farming settlement, and most were built in relatively sheltered, workable ground. This one was placed where the land drops sharply away, which suggests the occupants were just as interested in visibility and surveillance as in agricultural convenience.

The enclosure is oval in plan, roughly twenty-six metres across its longer axis, and is defined by a substantial earthen bank with a deep external fosse, the fosse being the ditch dug outside the bank to reinforce the barrier and, in some cases, to provide the material from which the bank itself was built. The bank survives well along its northern to south-western arc. The entrance gap, at just over two metres wide, faces south-east, which is a common orientation for ringfort entrances across Ireland. The fosse has been disturbed in places by rabbit burrows, a quiet kind of erosion that can do real damage to earthworks over time. By 2011, the site had been absorbed into a plantation of trees, which will have changed how the monument reads at ground level, the canopy now closing off the very views that presumably made this edge-of-scarp position worth choosing in the first place.