That kind of misplacement is more common than one might expect with early enclosure monuments, but it does mean this particular rath spent years effectively invisible to anyone following official guidance.

What Dunne found was a considerably reduced earthwork on a gently eastward-sloping pasture. A ringfort, or rath, is a roughly circular enclosure defined by an earthen bank and, typically, an outer ditch, which was the standard form of rural farmstead in early medieval Ireland. This one measures roughly 43 metres east to west and 41 metres north to south on its outer edge, with an interior of around 26 by 21 metres. The bank survives as a low grass-covered ridge of earth and stone, reaching only about half a metre at its highest point on the downslope eastern side. There is no surviving external fosse, the ditch that would ordinarily ring the bank. The irregular bumps and hollows scattered across the interior are likely the result of partial clearance, probably carried out sometime before 1945, when the County Kerry Field Club recorded a visit to the site in their minute book on 31st March of that year. That account described four chambers within the enclosure, which could represent hut-sites, a souterrain, or possibly both. A souterrain is an underground stone-lined passage, typically associated with early medieval settlements and used for storage or refuge. Because the limestone bedrock sits close to the surface here, there is also a genuine possibility that the monument was originally a cashel, a stone-built enclosure rather than an earthen one, though the degradation is now too severe to say with confidence.

The site remains in pasture and is low-lying enough that it can be easy to read the earthworks as natural undulation rather than archaeology. Knowing what to look for, specifically the gentle arc of the surviving bank and the humped interior, makes the enclosure considerably easier to trace.