Most ringforts, or raths, the enclosed farmsteads of early medieval Ireland typically dating from roughly the fifth to the twelfth century, are found in agricultural hinterland, set back from coasts and harbours. This one is not. Its proximity to such a well-trafficked inlet gives it an unusual quality, raising quiet questions about who chose this spot and why.

The rath is univallate, meaning it has a single enclosing bank rather than the two or three concentric rings found at higher-status sites. That bank, built from earth and small stones, still stands up to two metres high on the outside and about 1.25 metres on the interior face, enclosing a roughly circular space twenty-four metres across. Along the south-west and south-east sectors, faint traces of an external fosse, the shallow ditch dug to supply material for the bank and to reinforce the enclosure, can still be made out. At some point, part of the original earthen bank was rebuilt or patched in drystone walling, a common enough form of later intervention but one that makes reading the structure's original form a little more complicated. There are currently four gaps in the bank that could serve as entrances, yet which of them, if any, represents the original opening is no longer clear. Inside, placed centrally, are the remains of a circular hut eight metres in internal diameter, its wall a metre thick and surviving to a height of no more than forty centimetres. The description of the site was first set down by J. Cuppage in the 1986 Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey, a systematic examination of the Corca Dhuibhne region that documented hundreds of sites across one of Ireland's most archaeologically dense peninsulas.

The site's location near the harbour entrance is worth keeping in mind when approaching it. The low surviving height of the hut wall means it reads less as a standing ruin than as a earthwork outline, most legible when the light is low and shadows pool in the slight hollows of the fosse traces.