What makes this particular rath worth attention is not just its condition but the layering of its features: an inner enclosure, the traces of a partially collapsed underground passage system, and the ghost of a rectangular building just inside the original entrance gap, all of which together suggest a site that was modified, reused, and adapted across more than one period of occupation.

A rath is a type of ringfort, typically early medieval in origin, consisting of an earthen bank and a surrounding ditch, known as a fosse, enclosing a roughly circular space used as a defended farmstead. Here the inner bank still stands up to 3.5 metres high on its outer face, and the fosse is about four metres wide and up to a metre deep. A second outer bank runs along the northern and western sides only, and its irregular presence suggests it was added later, probably absorbed into a field boundary system at some point after the fort itself was in active use. Field walls radiate outward from the enclosure to the southeast and southwest, one of them running directly across the fosse. The original entrance was a 7.5-metre gap on the eastern side, and just inside it, on the northern edge, a rectangular stone and earthen foundation measuring roughly 4.4 by 3.6 metres projects into the interior, its purpose unspecified but its position at the threshold suggestive of a gatehouse or ancillary structure. Beneath the northwest quarter of the interior lies a souterrain, an underground passage and chamber of the kind commonly associated with early medieval Irish settlements, used variously for storage, refuge, or both. The passage has collapsed and is now visible only as a curving trench, running northeast for about five and a half metres before bending southeast for a further five metres to meet a circular chamber depression roughly four metres across. Short stretches of the original drystone walling survive where the passage meets the chamber, and a small aperture at the southwestern end may open into a further section that has yet to be properly investigated. The site was documented by J. Cuppage in the 1986 Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey.