A ringfort, or rath, is an enclosed farmstead of the early medieval period, typically defined by one or more banks and ditches and used as a defended homestead for a family and their livestock. This one sits under grass on the ridge, its dimensions still measurable and largely intact: roughly 37.9 metres north to south and 37.1 metres east to west, with a round-topped bank of earth and stone between 2.4 and 2.6 metres wide at the crest and nearly five metres at the base. The entrance, 2.7 metres wide, opens in the eastern quadrant, which was the conventional orientation for such structures.

What makes the site quietly revealing is the layering of different phases of use visible within the earthwork itself. Boulders scattered around the bank appear to be the residue of field clearance rather than original construction material, suggesting the land around it was being actively worked long after the fort's founding purpose had faded. Inside, the northwest quadrant contains two depressions, the larger of which, measuring roughly five metres by five metres and half a metre deep, shows signs of deliberate excavation. Towards the southern bank, an old feeding ring and a waterlogged pool point to relatively recent use as a livestock enclosure. A second small pool sits near the northwest quadrant. A slight scarp drops toward the entrance in the east, and within that depression someone has left a mound of cut gorse. Field boundaries that once ran to the north and south of the ringfort have since been removed. Notably, there is no visible evidence of an external fosse, the ditch that typically accompanies such banks, which gives this example a somewhat stripped-down profile compared to more elaborate examples elsewhere.