A ringfort, sometimes called a rath, is a roughly circular enclosure defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches, used during the early medieval period in Ireland primarily as a defended farmstead. This one sits on a natural rise of ground, with a stream and wet marshy floodplain lying to the south and east, and more open grassland to the north and west.

The enclosure has an internal diameter of roughly 32 metres north to south and 38 metres east to west, and what survives of its defining bank has been largely reduced to a scarp, a steep face of earth, ranging between 0.8 and 2.5 metres in height. An outer fosse, the ditch that would once have reinforced the bank's defensive effect, remains visible only along the northern arc from northwest through to northeast, and there is a possible entrance gap of around 7 metres at the southwest. The southern side tells a different story from the rest. There the external scarp is nearly twice as steep as on the north, the ringfort platform rises considerably higher above the surrounding terrain, and no fosse is detectable at all. This asymmetry almost certainly reflects the topography beneath: the south overlooks low-lying marshy ground and a river's floodplain, ground that would itself have provided a natural obstacle and made a deep ditch redundant. The large silage pit, measuring roughly 11 by 12 metres and cut 2.4 metres deep into the southeastern quadrant of the site, was recorded by Cahill in 1982. About 270 metres to the southwest stands a fortified house and bawn, a bawn being a walled enclosure typically associated with plantation-era defended residences, suggesting this broader landscape carried strategic value across several different periods.