Half of its original enclosing earthwork survives as a proper raised bank; the other half has been replaced, at some point in the intervening centuries, by a drystone field wall that almost certainly traces the line of the vanished earthen bank beneath it. The effect is of a structure caught mid-transformation, part ancient monument, part ordinary farm boundary.

The site is a univallate rath, meaning it has a single enclosing bank rather than the multiple concentric rings that mark higher-status ringforts. Raths of this kind were the most common form of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, typically enclosing a family farmstead and its associated buildings within an earthen bank and, sometimes, an outer ditch. Here, the surviving northwest arc of bank still stands around 0.75 metres high on its inner face and a more substantial 2 metres on the outer, giving a sense of how the original enclosure would have dominated its immediate surroundings. A shallow fosse, the outer ditch intended to complement the bank's defensive profile, is still faintly legible on the ground, separated from the bank's base by a flat ledge roughly 2 metres wide. The enclosure's interior measures approximately 24 metres across its longest axis. The original entrance almost certainly lay in the southeast section, where the earthwork has been lost, though two gaps now provide access where the surviving bank meets the later field wall at the north and southwest. The site was documented by J. Cuppage in the 1986 Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey of the Corca Dhuibhne region.