Thousands were built across the country between roughly the fifth and twelfth centuries, and this one, known as a rath, meaning a ringfort defined by an earthen bank and ditch rather than stone, has faded to the point where it is only barely legible in the landscape.

The enclosure was recorded on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey map, which gives some sense of how much ground has been lost since the nineteenth century. At that point the circular form was clear enough to be plotted; today it is only faintly discernible. What can still be estimated is the diameter, roughly 28.5 metres, which would place it at the smaller end of the ringfort scale, consistent with a single-family agricultural enclosure rather than a high-status site. It sits on a north-facing slope, a detail that is quietly telling, since most early medieval settlement in Ireland favoured south-facing ground for shelter and warmth. The site was documented as part of the Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey published in 1986 by J. Cuppage, a comprehensive effort to catalogue the extraordinary density of prehistoric and early medieval remains across the Dingle Peninsula.