The enclosing bank is earthen and considerably eroded on most of its circuit, but along a good portion of its outer face the bank is stone-faced, suggesting that whoever built or maintained this structure took extra care to reinforce it against the slope. A wide gap, nearly twenty metres across, interrupts the boundary to the south-east, which may represent an original entrance or a later breach.

Ringforts, known in Irish as raths when they are earthen rather than stone-built, were the most common form of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, typically serving as enclosed farmsteads for a single family and their livestock. This example sits on a north-facing slope, a position that would have offered reasonable visibility across the surrounding terrain even if it sacrifices some shelter from the weather. The enclosure measures roughly 45.6 metres east to west and 45.5 metres north to south, making it a fairly standard size. One of its more intriguing features is what survives on the north-east to east-south-east arc: a scarp some two metres high with a slight internal lip, hinting that the earthworks here were once considerably more substantial. Perhaps most suggestive is the possible souterrain recorded within the interior. A souterrain is an underground passage or chamber, typically dry-stone built, that was used in early medieval times for storage and occasionally as a place of refuge. Their presence within ringforts is common enough to be expected, but each one represents the buried signature of whoever once lived within these banks.