Ringforts, known in Irish as raths, were enclosed farmsteads typically dating from the early medieval period, built with earthen banks and ditches to define a domestic space and perhaps protect livestock. This one measured roughly 38 metres in diameter, and its outline was clear enough to be mapped on the Ordnance Survey six-inch sheets of 1842, 1904, and 1937, each showing the characteristic hachured circle of a circular enclosure, along with an external fosse to the north and east, and an entrance to the north-west.

By the time P. J. Hartnett visited in 1939 and recorded his observations, the site was already in a compromised state. He noted a double rampart still surviving to the east and south-east, but elsewhere the banks had, in his words, been "smoothed out as a result of tillage within the fort," with the entrance by then on the western side. The decades since have continued that process of attrition. What survives today is a worn earthen bank reaching roughly one metre in height, no longer functioning as any kind of enclosure but folded into the field fence system running from north-north-east to south-east. The fosse and the clear circular plan visible to earlier surveyors are largely gone, the rath now indistinguishable at a glance from the ordinary boundaries of an Irish pastoral field.