Its enclosing earthen bank stands 3.1 metres high, stone-faced in places, and the southern entrance, still clearly defined at two metres wide, gives the whole structure a composed, deliberate quality. A laneway runs outside the bank along the north-to-south axis, which may simply be a modern agricultural convenience, or may echo something older about how the site was approached and used.

Ringforts, known in Irish as raths when constructed primarily from earth, were the most common form of enclosed settlement in early medieval Ireland, broadly from the sixth to the twelfth century. They typically served as farmsteads for a single family or kin group, the enclosing bank providing security for livestock as much as for people. What makes this particular example worth noting is the survival of a small circular hut site within the enclosure, just 4.6 metres in diameter, defined by its own low bank of earth and stone with stone facing visible on the interior. Structures like this are common finds inside ringforts but are not always so clearly preserved; here the interior arrangement gives a legible sense of how a small domestic compound might once have been organised, the main enclosure doing the heavy work of defence and the inner hut providing shelter within it.

The site sits in working pasture, and the bank and entrance remain in reasonable condition. Visitors approaching across the slope would notice the raised profile of the earthwork before anything else, the bank height making it conspicuous even in a landscape where such features are not uncommon.