Inside the enclosure, three subtle mounds rise from the ground, two near the centre and one shifted towards the south-west. These bumps in the earth are thought to be the remains of house sites, the ghostly footprints of people who once lived and slept within the protection of the surrounding bank.

The earthwork is classed as a univallate ringfort, meaning it has a single line of defence: one bank and one external fosse, or ditch, encircling the interior. Ringforts of this type are among the most common early medieval monuments in Ireland, built roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries as enclosed farmsteads for individual families or small communities. The bank and ditch would have served as much to mark territory and contain livestock as to provide any serious military defence. What makes this particular example quietly interesting is the preservation of those three interior mounds, recorded in the North Kerry Archaeological Survey compiled by C. Toal and published in 1995. Their identification as probable house sites gives the enclosure a domestic intimacy, a sense of a specific household rather than just an anonymous earthwork category.