That intrusion tells you something about the site's fate: it survives, but only just, and the landscape has not been especially kind to it. What remains is a univallate rath, meaning a ringfort enclosed by a single bank and ditch, roughly 25 metres north to south and 27 metres east to west internally. The western bank is the most legible stretch, rising 2.3 metres on its outer face and holding an average basal width of just over four metres. In places it is still revetted internally with upright stone slabs and horizontal coursing, a detail that suggests this was once a reasonably substantial construction. The eastern side has fared worse, gapped in several places, and the interior is uneven and lumpy throughout.

One feature gives the site a particular quiet interest. Set into the inner base of the bank at the north-west is a lintelled opening to a souterrain, an underground stone-lined passage of the kind commonly associated with Early Medieval ringforts across Ireland, used variously for storage, refuge, or both. The souterrain itself is not accessible, but it appears to run northward beneath the bank, and the bank's outer face visibly bulges at that point, the ground above giving away what lies below. Within the south-west quadrant of the interior there is also an oblong mound, possibly the sod-covered upcast generated when the roadway was cut through the site. The rath sits on the western bank of a tributary of the Oghermong river, and despite its worn condition commands a wide view southward and westward across Ballinskelligs Bay towards Valentia Harbour, a reminder that the people who built here were not choosing the spot carelessly.