The rath at Loughanes takes a different approach entirely, sitting in flat, low-lying pastureland just north of the Ballybunion to Listowel road, where the land offers no particular strategic advantage. What it does offer, still, is a readable outline, at least in part. This is a bivallate rath, meaning it was enclosed not by one but by two concentric earthen banks, a design that placed extra emphasis on demarcation and defence.

The inner bank remains the more legible of the two. It rises 1.3 metres above the fosse, the water- or debris-filled ditch that ran between the two banks, and stands about a metre above the interior ground level. That interior, roughly 38 metres across, sits slightly higher than the surrounding field, a subtle but persistent feature that often survives long after the banks themselves have eroded or been ploughed down. The outer bank has fared less well; in most places it has been levelled to between 10 and 30 centimetres in height, barely a ripple in the pasture. The fosse between them is clearest on the northern and north-western sides, and has largely disappeared elsewhere. A wide entrance, approximately 7 metres across, appears to have faced south-east. Raths of this kind were typically built and occupied during the early medieval period, roughly the fifth to twelfth centuries, and functioned as enclosed farmsteads, the ringwork marking out the household space of a family of some local standing.

The site sits close enough to the main road that it is not difficult to locate, though access through private farmland would need to be considered. The northern and north-western arc, where the fosse is best preserved, is the most rewarding section to read from ground level, the double-enclosure logic of the structure becoming clearer there than anywhere else on the perimeter.