This is a univallate rath, meaning a ringfort enclosed by a single bank and ditch, and it is the kind of structure that appears at intervals across the Irish countryside, easy to overlook and yet representing one of the most common monument types surviving from early medieval Ireland. What makes this particular example mildly puzzling is an internal fieldbank running north to south, dividing the enclosed space into two unequal portions. Whether that division is original or a later agricultural intervention is not recorded, but it gives the interior a slightly ambiguous character.

The earthwork measures roughly 36 metres north to south and 33 metres east to west. Its enclosing bank varies between 4 and 6 metres wide at the base and reaches 1.4 metres above the interior at its highest point, which is itself elevated above the land outside the fosse. That external fosse, a ditched depression intended to heighten the bank's effective height and mark the boundary of the enclosed space, measures 1.6 metres wide and half a metre deep. These dimensions are modest but coherent, consistent with a farmstead enclosure of the early medieval period, the kind of defended homestead a reasonably prosperous farming family might have occupied between roughly the fifth and twelfth centuries. The site is described as very overgrown, and the surrounding pasture offers open views in every direction, which would have been a practical consideration for anyone settling here a thousand or more years ago. The description comes from C. Toal's North Kerry Archaeological Survey, published by Brandon in 1995, a systematic effort to document monuments across a landscape that contains a significant concentration of such earthworks.