A low earthen bank curves around a roughly circular space, interrupted in places by gaps, overgrown along one side, and almost imperceptible along another, where the only sign of the enclosure is a gentle step up from the surrounding ground. Inside, there is an unexplained hollow in the south-east corner. Nobody has yet accounted for it.

The site is a univallate rath, meaning a ringfort enclosed by a single bank and ditch rather than the multiple concentric ramparts found at more elaborate examples. Ringforts of this kind were the most common form of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, typically serving as farmsteads for a family and their livestock, bounded by an earthen bank, or bank and fosse, that provided both a degree of security and a visible statement of occupation. Here, the fosse, the external ditch that would originally have reinforced the enclosure, survives only along the western sector, where it remains about one and a half metres wide and less than half a metre deep. The bank itself reaches a maximum of 1.6 metres on the external face, but conditions vary considerably around the circuit. Along the east side the bank is densely overgrown, though it appears to be stone-revetted in places, a facing of stone built against the earthen core to help it hold its shape. Gaps in the bank at the north-west and north-east, each only a few metres wide, are partially bridged by a later stone wall that has been built over the original material, using the old bank as a convenient footing. The site was recorded and described by J. Cuppage as part of the Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey published in 1986.

The rath sits on a gently south-east-facing slope with clear sightlines towards Dingle Harbour and the Iveragh Peninsula beyond. Whatever its condition at ground level, the position chosen for it was plainly not accidental.