Most ringforts, those circular or oval farmstead enclosures that dot the Irish countryside in their thousands and date broadly to the early medieval period, are round. This one is rectangular, which makes it something of an oddity, and that single difference is enough to leave archaeologists hedging their language carefully.

The enclosure measures roughly 28 metres north to south and 24 metres east to west internally, enclosed by a single bank that stands nearly two metres high on its outer face and averages over three metres wide at its base. What makes it stranger still is evidence that the inner face of this bank was once lined with drystone walling, a technique more often associated with stone-built enclosures than earthen ones. Enough of that facing survives, particularly along the eastern side, the northern side near the north-west corner, and at scattered points elsewhere, to show the original intention, though the maximum surviving height is only around a metre. The east-facing entrance, 2.2 metres wide, also retains traces of stone-lining, and the outer face of the bank on either side of the gap is stone-faced as well, even though this feature disappears around the rest of the perimeter. The description on which this account is based was compiled by J. Cuppage for the Dingle Peninsula Archaeological Survey, published in 1986 as part of the Corca Dhuibhne survey, and the tentative conclusion offered there was that the site should "perhaps" be interpreted as a rectangular ringfort. The hedging is deliberate: rectangular ringforts exist, but they are uncommon enough that the classification is never entirely comfortable.

The interior is now heavily overgrown, and the dense vegetation makes it difficult to read the ground surface with any confidence. Loose stone is scattered throughout, much of it likely fallen from the collapsed drystone facing of the bank, but no definite internal features have been identified. The enclosure sits quietly on its slope, half-legible, with the bay visible to the north and the question of what it once enclosed still open.