This is not ruin by neglect or gradual erosion; the western portion of the bank was removed in 1989, a relatively recent act that has left the structure visibly incomplete and slightly disorienting to anyone who encounters it.

The site is a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, the most common monument type in the Irish countryside. Ringforts were enclosed farmsteads, built and used primarily between the early medieval period and around the twelfth century, in which a circular area was surrounded by one or more earthen banks to protect livestock and a household from raiders and wolves rather than from organised armies. This particular example measures twenty-one metres across on its north-south axis, and where the bank survives, on the northern, eastern, and southern sides, it remains substantial, standing two metres high on the interior and between four and five metres on the outer face, with a width of around one metre at the top. Unusually, there is no fosse, the defensive ditch that typically accompanies the bank and from which the earth would originally have been dug. Where the original entrance once lay is no longer recognisable.

The setting in rough pasture still allows good views to the north, which may well have been part of the original logic of the location, offering those inside some awareness of who or what was approaching across the wider landscape.