A ringfort, or rath, is a circular earthen enclosure used in early medieval Ireland primarily as a farmstead, defined by one or more raised banks and ditches. Here, only a curving arc of earthen bank remains, running roughly west-northwest to northeast along the northwest side of a townland boundary. The bank still stands about 1.2 metres high on its interior face, though the exterior has been reduced to around 0.45 metres. No trace of the rest of the circle is visible at ground level, and the bank and whatever survives of the interior are heavily overgrown with bushes, making the interior effectively inaccessible.

The story of how this site reached its current condition was already well advanced by the time it was formally noted in the 1930s. Bowman, writing in 1934, recorded the fort as a single-ramparted enclosure of roughly 45 yards in diameter, situated on land belonging to a Mrs O'Sullivan. Even then, a boundary fence ran directly through it, and Bowman observed that approximately seven-eighths of the original circuit had been levelled. The townland boundary, which the surviving arc now flanks, appears to have been the agent of that destruction, the fence line essentially consuming the monument over time until only this fragment was left. What persists today is the portion that happened to fall on the right side of that division. Despite the near-total physical loss, a strong local tradition of a fort at this location has continued, keeping the memory of the place alive even as the earthworks themselves largely disappeared.