Most Irish ringforts consist of a single enclosing bank, but this one is bivallate, meaning it has two concentric earthen banks separated by a ditch, or fosse. That doubling of effort suggests the enclosure once mattered to someone, whether for the defence of livestock, the display of status, or some combination of the two that Early Medieval Irish society rarely chose to separate.

The site is roughly sub-circular, with an internal diameter of around 25 metres north to south and 23 metres east to west, giving an overall external footprint of 50 metres across. The inner bank is well preserved, standing between 2 and 3.2 metres above the fosse and about 1.2 metres above the interior platform. The U-shaped fosse averages 3.8 metres wide, and the outer bank beyond it rises some 2 metres above the ditch floor. Notably, the interior sits higher than the surrounding land and contains at least five small mounds that appear to be constructed of stone. These could be the collapsed remains of a souterrain, an underground stone-lined passage or chamber typically used for storage or refuge, and the possibility is strengthened by the word 'cave' marked at this location on the 1842 Ordnance Survey map. The site was documented in detail by C. Toal in the North Kerry Archaeological Survey, published in 1995.