The site is what is known as a caher, a type of ringfort enclosed by a dry-stone wall rather than an earthen bank, and this one is substantial: roughly 25 metres north to south and 30 metres east to west. What makes it quietly striking is not its condition, which is fragmentary, but the way its gradual dismantling over generations has been absorbed into the surrounding landscape. The stone that once faced its enclosing wall has been lifted and reused in nearby field boundaries and roads, so the fort has effectively dissolved outward into the countryside around it.

The enclosing wall survives best at the north-west, where a short stretch retains its original stone facing on both inner and outer surfaces and the wall still measures 3.6 metres wide. Elsewhere the picture is more worn: in the southern sector the wall has spread into a stony band roughly a metre high and up to 10 metres wide, the masonry long since having slumped or been robbed. A 2-metre gap on the western side may mark where the original entrance once stood. Inside, four huts were once arranged against the enclosing wall. One was rectangular, measuring 5.3 metres by 4 metres internally, with walls that now survive to an average height of just 0.4 metres. Two circular huts abutted or sat adjacent to it, one averaging 5 metres in diameter, another measuring 5.4 by 4.5 metres internally, and a fourth is suggested only by a short arc of walling near the southern inner face. A modern field boundary bisects the interior of the caher from north to south, cutting directly through one of the circular huts, a reminder that the site has been in active agricultural use long after its original occupation ended. The survey of the Iveragh peninsula compiled by A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan, published by Cork University Press in 1996, provides the detailed record from which the known dimensions and layout are drawn.