Most ringforts, the roughly circular enclosed farmsteads built across Ireland from the early medieval period onwards, are defined by an earthen bank and an accompanying fosse, or outer ditch, dug to provide the material for that bank. Here, no fosse is visible at ground level. The enclosure still asserts itself as a raised circular platform some 28 metres in diameter, its scarped edge rising about 1.5 metres above the surrounding pasture, but the usual formula has been interrupted or absorbed by something older and more indifferent: the land itself.

The site sits on a gentle south-facing slope in upland pasture, and along its eastern side the ground simply drops away into the steep natural bank of a north-south flowing stream. That slope, rather than any man-made fosse, defines the eastern margin of the enclosure, from the east-northeast around to the southeast. The builders, in other words, recruited the stream bank into the design, letting topography do the work of an earthwork. A modern drystone field wall now runs along the top of the scarped edge on the western and north-northwestern side, folding the early medieval boundary into the more recent geometry of agricultural enclosure. The interior is not level either: the eastern fifth of the platform sits roughly 0.7 metres lower than the rest, a subtle step that may reflect how the site was adapted to the natural contours of the slope, or may hint at separate phases of use. The original entrance has left no legible trace.