A rath, as these early medieval farmstead enclosures are known, would once have presented as a clearly defined circular earthwork, its raised bank and interior enclosure marking out a settled family's space in the landscape. This one is all but gone, reduced by centuries of agricultural use to a rise just sixteen metres long and roughly thirty centimetres high along its southern edge.

The site was still legible enough to be recorded on Ordnance Survey maps produced in both 1841 to 1842 and 1914 to 1915, suggesting it retained some visible form well into the twentieth century. Aerial photography by the Geological Survey of Ireland later confirmed its circular outline from above, the crop or soil marks betraying a shape the ground itself no longer clearly holds. Somewhere between those mid-century surveys and recent times, repeated ploughing erased what remained of the earthwork, leaving only that low southern remnant as evidence of what had been there. C. Toal's North Kerry Archaeological Survey, published in 1995, documents the site in this diminished condition, recording it as largely ploughed out.