What makes the site worth pausing over is its relationship to its immediate neighbour: the rath sits directly to the north of the ruined Knockanure Church, a pairing that turns up elsewhere in the Irish landscape and tends to suggest a long continuity of settlement, a place that mattered to people across very different eras and belief systems.

The ringfort itself is a univallate rath, meaning it is enclosed by a single earthen bank rather than the multiple concentric ramparts that mark more elaborate or higher-status examples. The bank is well-defined, averaging around five metres in width and rising to 1.3 metres above the surrounding ground. The interior, which spans roughly 22 metres north to south and 23 metres east to west, sits at a slightly elevated level relative to the land outside, a feature common to this type of enclosure and likely the result of centuries of occupation accumulating material within the boundary. Raths of this kind were the farmsteads of early medieval Ireland, typically dating from roughly the fifth to the twelfth centuries, and tens of thousands of them once dotted the countryside. Many have been lost to agriculture and development, which makes a well-preserved example like this one, with its bank still readable in the ground, quietly significant. The site was documented in Catherine Toal's North Kerry Archaeological Survey, published in 1995.