A ringfort, or rath, is a roughly circular enclosed settlement of the early medieval period, typically defined by an earthen bank and ditch. Here, that definition has been considerably blurred by centuries of practical reuse, and what survives is a site that has been quietly absorbed into the working landscape around it.

The enclosure is a broadly oval shape, measuring approximately thirty to thirty-five metres east to west and around twenty-five metres north to south. Its edges are defined by a scarp, rising to about forty centimetres on the western side and a more substantial metre on the northern, with remnants of stone facing still visible along its circuit. At some point after the ringfort fell out of its original use, later farmers incorporated it into a system of drystone field walls. One wall runs in a broad arc from south-west to north-east, set two to three metres inside the scarp; another cuts across the eastern edge entirely in a north to south line. A further inward-facing scarp runs parallel to that north-south wall through the interior, with several boulders placed against it at its southern end. The southern edge of the ringfort may have been partly removed when the road immediately to its south was laid, and that section is now faced with drystone walling and capped along the top. The result is a structure where early medieval earthwork, later field boundaries, and road engineering have all folded into one another, each generation treating what came before as useful raw material rather than something to be preserved at a distance. The position on the western break of slope along the ridge affords clear views from east-south-east to north-west, which likely informed why the site was chosen in the first place.