Ringforts, or raths, are roughly circular enclosures defined by one or more earthen banks, used in early medieval Ireland primarily as defended farmsteads. This one is univallate, meaning it has a single enclosing bank, but that bank retains an unusual detail: a short stretch of its inner drystone revetment is stepped, forming what appears to be a sloping ramp or rudimentary flight of steps up to an upper terrace level. It is the kind of feature easy to walk past without noticing, yet it implies a deliberate use of the wall's upper surface, whether for lookout, storage, or simply movement around the enclosure.

The rath has an internal diameter of 26.8 metres, and its enclosing bank survives to around 2.6 metres on the external face and 2.3 metres internally, which is a respectable height for an earthwork of this kind. The inner face of the bank is revetted with drystone walling throughout much of its circuit, a technique that reinforces the earthen core and helps maintain the profile of the bank over time. The original entrance, a gap 1.5 metres wide at the north-north-west, still shows two courses of drystone walling on its eastern side, though material spilling down from the bank has partially filled it. A second break in the bank to the south appears to be a modern intrusion rather than an original feature. The interior is largely level, crossed by old cultivation ridges, and contains one irregular pit roughly three metres square and a metre deep, though this too is thought to be of relatively recent origin rather than anything more ancient. The site was recorded by J. Cuppage as part of the Dingle Peninsula Archaeological Survey published in 1986, which documented the remarkable density of early and prehistoric remains across the Corca Dhuibhne region.