That kind of collision between the ancient and the practical is common enough in the Irish countryside, but here it has left the site genuinely split: the western side of the enclosing bank has vanished entirely, absorbed or demolished at some point to clear the way for farming, while the eastern arc of earthwork survives more or less intact.

The site is a univallate rath, meaning it was enclosed by a single bank and ditch rather than the multiple concentric rings found at more elaborate ringforts. Raths of this type were the farmsteads of early medieval Ireland, built roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries, and tens of thousands of them once dotted the landscape. This one sits in pasture on the southern bank of the River Laune in County Kerry, measuring around sixteen metres across its interior east to west. Where the bank does survive, it stands to an average external height of about 1.8 metres and is roughly a metre wide, constructed from a mixture of earth and stone. Dense vegetation has colonised the bank and spilled inward, covering whatever features the interior might once have contained. No obvious traces of structures, pits, or other activity are visible at ground level.