The ringfort itself, or rath, is a type of enclosed farmstead once common across early medieval Ireland, typically consisting of a circular area defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches, and used as a defended homestead. That someone later pressed the bank into service as the foundation wall for an industrial structure, a lime kiln being a small furnace used to burn limestone and produce agricultural lime, suggests a pragmatic reuse of ancient landscape features that was far from unusual in rural Ireland.

The enclosure measures forty-two metres in diameter, with a bank rising to around 1.2 metres, now heavily overgrown. The entrance gap to the north-east, about six metres wide, is the standard positioning for a rath of this kind, broadly consistent with early medieval practice across Munster. The lime kiln sitting ruined in the south-eastern arc of the bank is a later intrusion, its exact date unrecorded, but kilns of this sort were in active use well into the nineteenth century. The coincidence of the two structures in a single bank is a reminder that working farmland rarely stood still across the centuries, and that what looks like a single monument is often the product of several very different eras of use.