A bivallate rath, meaning one enclosed by two banks and two ditches rather than the more common single circuit, this site once had an outer fosse described by the antiquarian George Victor Du Noyer in 1858 as small and shallow, faced externally with large flagstones. That outer bank has since been levelled entirely, and the inner ditch has been filled with field clearance debris and rubble from the collapsed outer bank. What remains is the inner revetment, a drystone wall still standing to about 1.75 metres and stepped along most of its circumference, forming a narrow terrace roughly 0.85 metres wide before rising again to a broad, flat bank top. The west-facing entrance, around 4 metres wide and lined with drystone masonry on both sides, retains some very large stones that Du Noyer read as the remnants of a massive stone doorway.

The interior is equally layered in detail. A raised stony platform, up to 0.7 metres above the rest of the interior, occupies much of the space, and within it sits the best-preserved structure on site: a clochán, a small corbelled drystone hut, roughly circular and measuring about 4.6 by 4.2 metres internally. Its walls survive to nearly two metres in height. The lintelled entrance faces west, aligned with the main entrance of the enclosure, though earlier observers, including Du Noyer and the Ordnance Survey mappers, recorded it as facing east or north-east, a discrepancy that has not been satisfactorily resolved. A later internal wall was added at some point, most likely to convert the hut into a sheep shelter. A small wall-chamber built into the thickness of the southern wall can be glimpsed through a low lintelled opening but is no longer accessible. A second, rectangular structure at the western end of the platform survives only as a low wall fragment and two stone mounds. A further mound at the north-north-east was interpreted by Du Noyer as a ruined clochán. There is also a possible souterrain, an underground stone-lined passage of a type associated with early medieval settlement, somewhere beneath or near the platform; a writer named Chatterton described an extensive one here in 1839, though it is not certain her account refers to this precise site, and no entrance is now visible. Westropp noted the site in 1897 and Wakeman in 1903, each confirming the inner ditch's original dimensions of roughly 7.6 metres wide and up to 6 metres deep, which gives some sense of how formidable this enclosure once was.