What makes it worth pausing over is not its drama but its layering: a univallate rath, meaning a single-banked enclosure of the kind that was once a common feature of the Irish countryside, sits here with its circular bank and outer fosse still legible in the landscape, and within it the faint outlines of what appear to be two separate house sites, their walls reduced now to low rises of earth and stone. The rath commands a wide view across the river to the coast of Clare, which may explain why someone chose this particular patch of boggy ground in the first place.

The two possible structures inside the enclosure are modest in their dimensions. The northeasterly one measures roughly 3 metres by 9 metres externally; the one to its southwest is somewhat larger at 5.5 metres by 9 metres, with an additional L-shaped rise to its northwest that may represent a further feature, though its function is unclear. Just to the south of the rath lies a ring-barrow, a low circular mound of a type generally associated with early medieval or prehistoric burial, which suggests that this corner of Kilconly was a place of some significance over a long period. The relationship between the two monuments is not documented, but their proximity is unlikely to be coincidental. The site was recorded and described in C. Toal's North Kerry Archaeological Survey, published in 1995.