There are two rows of ridges running roughly north-northwest to south-southeast, arranged on either side of a central ridge that crosses the enclosure from east-northeast to west-southwest. Each ridge is around two metres wide and less than half a metre tall. No one knows what made them, or why.

The site is a univallate rath, meaning it has a single enclosing bank and ditch, and it sits on a level shoulder of ground that interrupts an otherwise steep hillside. Ringforts of this type were typically built during the early medieval period, roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries, as enclosed farmsteads for a single family or small community. This one measures just over twenty-two metres across internally, north to south, and twenty-three metres east to west. On the uphill side, the external fosse, the ditched depression that surrounds the bank, survives particularly well: 2.3 metres deep and over four metres wide at its base. The enclosing bank itself rises 3.5 metres above the base of the fosse. Along the southern and south-western arc, a drystone wall has been built directly on top of and into the earthen bank, partly using it as a foundation. The original entrance faces west-southwest, a roughly two-metre gap in the bank with a causeway across the fosse that is now barely visible. A more recent gap cuts through the south-western section. The site was described and catalogued by J. Cuppage in the 1986 Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey.

The rath looks south along the valley of the Milltown river towards Dingle Harbour, with the mountains of the Iveragh Peninsula visible beyond. Whatever was happening inside this enclosure, whoever lived or worked within it, they had a very long view of the world below.