Sitting in gently rolling pasture in north Cork, the enclosure measures roughly 35.5 metres north to south and 32 metres east to west, making it a fairly typical example of a rath, the Irish term for a roughly circular earthwork enclosure that served as a farmstead during the early medieval period, broadly from the fifth to the twelfth century. Thousands of these survive across Ireland in varying states of preservation, but this one rewards a closer look at its edges.

The enclosing earthen bank still stands to an internal height of around 0.9 metres and an external height of 1.35 metres, with a shallow fosse, or defensive ditch, surviving to the south and west. What sets this example apart is the evidence of stone facing. To the north, where the bank has been incorporated into the field fence system, the stonework is still clearly visible; elsewhere, fragments of facing remain on the outer bank face. A laneway now skirts the monument to the north and east, and at the eastern side the outer face of the bank has been built outwards to form a stone-faced angled corner, a small but telling sign of how the structure was adapted and reused by later farming generations rather than simply abandoned. Inside, the ground slopes gently southward. In the north-west quadrant there is a low, L-shaped internal bank, modest in height at around 0.25 metres, whose original function is not entirely clear. Perhaps the most intriguing feature lies slightly off-centre to the west: a possible souterrain, the term for an underground stone-lined passage or chamber, often associated with storage or refuge in early medieval settlements.