A ringfort, or rath, is an enclosed farmstead of the early medieval period, typically circular or oval in shape and bounded by one or more earthen banks; they are common across Ireland, but rarely do they carry quite so visible a scar of later land use running through their centre. Despite the intrusion, the rath retains a single earthen bank up to 1.8 metres high on its larger north-western portion, along with a narrow gap at the north that may once have served as an entrance. To the south-east of the lane, the bank itself has been removed, though the edge of the original platform survives as a scarp rising to the same height above the surrounding ground. A low, narrow bank or wall traces the inner edge of this platform at a distance of about 1.3 metres; this is thought to be a later addition, possibly marking a path that once circled the interior.

The interior is irregular, sloping gently downhill to the south-east and dotted with mounds and hollows that follow no clear pattern. Its position on the Dingle Peninsula, in the townland of Baile na Leacan, gives the site a particular geographical interest: the rath looks out along the Owenmore valley and across Brandon Bay towards the central mountain ridge of the peninsula. J. Cuppage documented the site in the 1986 Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey of the Dingle Peninsula. There are at least three known ringforts in this townland, and the scholar and writer known as An Seabhac noted in 1939 that one of them contained a souterrain, an underground stone-lined passage typically used for storage or refuge in early medieval Ireland. Which of the three ringforts he had in mind has never been established with certainty, leaving open a small but tantalising puzzle beneath the grass.