This is a univallate ringfort, meaning it has a single enclosing bank rather than the multiple concentric rings found at more elaborate sites, and it measures a consistent 48 metres across in both directions. Around its outer edge runs a fosse, the ditch dug to provide the material for the bank itself, still traceable in places though partially infilled and obscured by centuries of growth.

Ringforts are among the most common archaeological monuments in Ireland, with estimates suggesting upwards of 40,000 once existed across the island. Most date to the early medieval period, roughly the fifth to twelfth centuries, and functioned as enclosed farmsteads rather than military fortifications in any conventional sense. The bank and fosse combination would have defined a household's territory, provided some protection for livestock, and carried social significance. This particular example has fared reasonably well structurally, though an Office of Public Works inspection in 1980 recorded damage already under way: a break cut into the western bank and field clearance material dumped against the southern and western defences. By that point, and still in 2023, the vegetation had become so dense that the fosse disappears entirely on the southern to south-western arc. The interior slopes gently eastward, with a slightly boggy margin running from the north-north-west to the south-east, and a narrow gap in the bank to the north-east appears to serve as a drain for water accumulating in that lower area. The entrance, a four-metre-wide break to the west-south-west, is likely original. The site is a National Monument in State Care, listed as number 594.