Raths, the circular enclosures defined by earthen banks that dot the Irish countryside in their thousands, are common enough features of the early medieval landscape. What makes this one worth a second look is the presence of a secondary mound tucked into the southern sector of the interior, a feature that does not belong to the standard template.

The enclosure itself is univallate, meaning it has a single encircling bank rather than the multiple concentric rings that mark more elaborate examples. That bank runs from the north around through the northwest to the southwest, leaving the southern arc less clearly defined, while the interior ground tilts downward to the north and carries two rows of ridges running along its length. The small mound sitting within measures roughly 2.4 metres by 2.8 metres internally, modest dimensions that nonetheless set it apart as a distinct, deliberately placed feature. Whether it predates the rath, was constructed as part of it, or accumulated later through some unrelated activity, the record does not say. Internal mounds within raths are not unheard of, but they remain unusual enough to resist easy interpretation; they have been associated in different contexts with burial, with souterrains whose entrances were subsequently covered, and with the bases of structures long since vanished. The site was documented as part of C. Toal's North Kerry Archaeological Survey, published in 1995.