The rath at Skevanish, a ringfort of the kind once used as a defended farmstead by a farming family of some local standing, survives today as little more than a slight rise in a field that has long since been turned over to tillage. Its outline, a circular earthwork that would originally have enclosed a dwelling and its outbuildings, has been all but swallowed by centuries of cultivation.

The site sits on a south-south-west-facing slope above the Bandon River, a position typical of ringfort placement in Munster, where a gentle slope provided both drainage and a commanding view of the surrounding land. It was identified through aerial photography, which revealed the cropmark left by the buried remains of the enclosing bank and ditch. Such marks appear when differential soil moisture causes crops growing over buried features to ripen at a slightly different rate from the surrounding field, rendering the old geometry visible from above even when nothing is apparent at ground level. The site was recorded as part of the Cork Archaeological Survey aerial photography programme, and published in the Archaeological Inventory of County Cork in 1992.