What remains is visible only as a crop mark, one of those ghost impressions left in grass or grain where buried ditches and banks alter how the soil holds moisture, causing the vegetation overhead to grow and colour differently from its surroundings. It is an absence that speaks, if you know what to look for.

Ringforts, or raths, are enclosed farmsteads typical of early medieval Ireland, usually consisting of a circular earthen bank, a fosse (or ditch) dug immediately outside it, and sometimes additional outer rings of the same. This particular example appears to have measured roughly 44 metres in overall diameter, with a bank about 4 metres wide at its base. A researcher named Ashe, writing in 1954, recorded it as bivallate, meaning it originally had two concentric banks, and noted the presence of a large souterrain, an underground stone-lined passage or chamber often associated with storage or refuge. By the time a systematic survey of the Dingle Peninsula was published in 1986, no trace of the outer bank survived, and the site has continued to deteriorate since. The fosse and inner bank survive now only as that faint crop-mark outline, detectable from the right angle and in the right season rather than from the road itself.

The site sits close to the northern edge of the main Dingle to Anascaul road. The slope it occupies faces south-east and commands wide views in several directions, which is consistent with the positioning of many ringforts whose occupants would have wanted clear sightlines across the surrounding landscape. Very little of the physical structure remains to be inspected at ground level, but the location itself gives some sense of why it was chosen.