A rath, as these earthwork enclosures are known, was typically a circular defended farmstead of the early medieval period, built up from a raised bank of earth and sometimes stone to enclose a domestic space. This one, with an internal diameter of just over 26 metres, is roughly circular in plan, but its outline is irregular in a way that suggests the original form has been considerably altered over the centuries.

The enclosing bank still rises to just over two metres on both its inner and outer faces, which is a meaningful presence in the landscape. But the drystone revetment walling visible on those faces, the courses of unmortared stone used to retain and stabilise the bank, appears to be a modern addition rather than original fabric. That distinction matters: it means what looks like an ancient stone structure has, at some point, been actively reshaped, whether to shore up a crumbling bank, to reclaim the land for agricultural use, or simply to tidy a boundary that happened to coincide with an old earthwork. The site was documented as part of J. Cuppage's 1986 archaeological survey of the Corca Dhuibhne region, the Dingle Peninsula, which recorded it among hundreds of monuments scattered across that densely layered landscape.

The interior is now densely overgrown, and no clearly defined structural features are visible from the surface, though hollows and mounds within the enclosure hint that something lies beneath the vegetation. Sites like this one are often more archaeologically significant than they appear; the undisturbed ground inside a rath can preserve the buried traces of houses, hearths, and everyday life from over a thousand years ago, even when nothing is legible above ground.