This ringfort near Kilmore is a univallate example, meaning it is enclosed by a single earthen rampart rather than the two or three concentric banks that signal higher status. Thousands of such enclosures survive across Ireland, the remains of farmsteads typically dating to the early medieval period, between roughly the fifth and twelfth centuries. What sets this one apart is not its scale but its detail: the interior sits at a noticeably higher level than the land outside, the access gap faces southeast, and just inside that entrance the ground turns soft and wet, a condition that has probably persisted for centuries.

The enclosing bank runs to about five metres in width and still stands 1.2 metres on its outer face. Inside, in the northwest sector, a separate semi-circular enclosure curves inwards against the main bank, its own low rampart suggesting a subdivided interior where animals or activities were kept apart from the main living space. A short distance to the northeast, around four metres beyond the outer bank, the earthworks of a possible hut site survive. Roughly circular and measuring some 6.5 metres across internally, it too has a southeast-facing gap. Whether this outbuilding was contemporary with the ringfort or belongs to a different phase of use is not established, but the clustering of features across the two fields hints at a small working landscape rather than a single isolated enclosure. The survey recorded in C. Toal's North Kerry Archaeological Survey, published in 1995, provides the measurements and describes the relationship between these elements on the ground.

A bohareen, one of the narrow sunken lanes that thread through the Irish countryside and often preserve very old field boundaries, runs immediately to the west of the site. It is the kind of detail that suggests continuity: a track that may have served this settlement for well over a thousand years, now bordered by the same low bank that once enclosed someone's farmyard.