The site is a rath, or ringfort, one of the most common monument types in the Irish countryside, typically dating to the early medieval period roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries. Ringforts were enclosed farmsteads, their circular banks and ditches defining a domestic and agricultural space rather than a military one. This example measures roughly 25.5 metres east to west and 24.3 metres north to south, making it a fairly modest specimen.

What gives the site its particular character is the way its builders adapted to the terrain. Because the ground falls away to the north, the interior has been deliberately raised on that side to create a level platform within the enclosure, a practical piece of earthwork engineering that is easy to overlook but quietly telling about the care taken in its construction. To the south, an earthen bank around 0.6 metres high defines the perimeter, while a scarp, essentially a cut face of earth, takes over elsewhere, rising to about a metre. A drain has been dug along the base of this scarp running from west round to the northeast, helping to manage water on the slope. The site has not come through the centuries untouched: a roadway has clipped the eastern side, truncating the circuit, and a field boundary crosses the interior on an east-west line, dividing a space that was once unified.