Known also by the Irish name Cabhlach, this ringfort on the Iveragh Peninsula in County Kerry now survives as little more than a flat patch of ground, roughly 15 metres by 12 metres, with only faint traces of a stony bank along its northern edge. A ringfort, or rath, was typically a circular enclosure defined by earthen banks and ditches, used in early medieval Ireland as a farmstead or small defended settlement. Here, the enclosure that was clearly visible on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey map has been largely levelled, leaving the landscape with almost no outward sign that anything once stood there at all.

The site sits to the northwest of Sheehan's Point on the Iveragh Peninsula, a stretch of southwest Kerry coastline long studied for its density of early archaeological remains. The dual name, Tallough Fort and Cabhlach, hints at the layered naming conventions common in this part of Ireland, where anglicised placenames and their Irish originals sometimes diverge in meaning or emphasis. Beyond its position in the landscape and the bare physical dimensions of what survives, the historical record for this particular enclosure is sparse, which is itself a kind of information. Many ringforts across Ireland were gradually dismantled as agricultural practices changed, their stones and earthworks absorbed into field boundaries, farm buildings, or simply cleared away.