The enclosure, roughly circular and about 41 metres across, is defined by a drystone wall, the kind built without mortar, each stone relying on careful placement and the weight of its neighbours. A gap at the north-north-east may mark the original entrance, the point through which people and livestock once moved in and out of daily life.

Ringforts, known in Irish as ráth or caiseal depending on whether the boundary was an earthen bank or a stone wall, were the standard farmstead type in Ireland from roughly the fifth to the twelfth century, and thousands survive in varying states of preservation. This example belongs to the stone-walled variety. What makes it slightly unusual is the mound in the western interior, oriented east to west, measuring around 12 metres long, just over 10 metres wide, and less than a metre high. Such interior features can represent the collapsed remains of a structure, a souterrain, which is an underground stone-lined passage sometimes used for storage or refuge, or simply accumulated debris from centuries of occupation and decay. The notes do not specify which applies here, and without excavation the mound keeps its own counsel. A house recorded separately lies about 30 metres to the north, suggesting the site sits within a landscape that has seen continuous, if shifting, human use.