What survives is subtle, the kind of archaeology that rewards patience rather than spectacle, but the site belongs to a class of monument, the bivallate rath, that once shaped the rhythms of early Irish rural life across the whole island. A rath is a roughly circular enclosure, typically defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches, used as a farmstead during the early medieval period. A bivallate example has two such concentric rings, which may have indicated some degree of status or simply a more elaborate approach to enclosure and defence.

Within this double-ringed enclosure, traces of three or four hut-sites have been identified, along with a reputed souterrain, an underground stone-lined passage of the kind often associated with raths and thought to have served for storage or refuge. One rectangular hut in particular, sheltering against the eastern bank of the enclosure, survives with enough definition to be measured: roughly 3.5 metres by 2.8 metres internally, a space closer in scale to a garden shed than to anything a modern person would call a room. Around it lies a band of collapsed material about 1.15 metres wide, the slumped remnant of walls that once stood upright. The western wall, where the entrance is thought to have been, has been almost entirely levelled. The survey documentation for this site, compiled by J. Cuppage as part of the Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey published in 1986, places it within a broader landscape of early settlement on the peninsula, a part of Kerry that holds an unusually dense concentration of prehistoric and early medieval remains.