The outer bank, once a distinct defensive earthwork, has been folded into an ordinary field boundary along its western and northern arc, so that what was once an enclosure now partially functions as a hedge line or fence line like any other in the Westmeath countryside. The gap at the west-southwest may once have been the entrance, but the original threshold is no longer recognisable as such.

A ringfort, sometimes called a rath, is a circular or near-circular enclosure defined by earthen banks and ditches, most commonly built and occupied during the early medieval period in Ireland, roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries. They served as farmsteads and sometimes as sites of local status and authority. This particular example is bivallate, meaning it has two concentric banks rather than the more common single one, with a fosse, or ditch, running between them. The fosse here is notably wide, deep, and U-shaped in profile. The monument sits on a gentle rise in undulating pasture and measures roughly 48 metres east to west and 46 metres north to south, giving it a broadly subcircular shape. Views open out to the west, north, and east, while the southern aspect is more restricted by the lie of the land. Inside the enclosure, the ground slopes gently toward the northeast, and faint traces of cultivation ridges run northwest to southeast, suggesting that the interior was worked as agricultural ground at some point after the ringfort's original use had ended, a fate common to many such monuments across the country.