What makes this particular rath, or ringfort, worth pausing over is not grandeur but detail: the question of where the entrance once was remains genuinely unresolved, with numerous gaps in the enclosing bank offering several candidates and no definitive answer. The most likely original opening, a gap of about two metres at the east-south-east, is partly defined on its southern side by stones laid horizontally or on edge, yet it has since been blocked by a later bank added at some unknown point, complicating the picture further.

A rath is an early medieval enclosed farmstead, typically dating to somewhere between the sixth and tenth centuries, defined by a circular earthen bank and an outer ditch called a fosse. This one is univallate, meaning it has a single such enclosure rather than the double or triple rings seen at more elaborate sites. The interior measures roughly 24 metres east to west and 27 metres north to south, enclosed by a bank that rises about 1.5 metres above the base of its fosse and about a metre above the interior ground level. The fosse itself is around two metres wide and up to a metre deep below the external ground surface. What lifts the site beyond a simple enclosure is the evidence for three probable hut-sites within it. One is an irregular depression abutting the inner face of the bank at the north-west, about three metres across and only about 25 centimetres deep. Two more depressions sit side by side in the western sector of the interior, each measuring roughly three to three and a half metres at their widest and reaching up to a metre in depth; these two appear to be connected by a passage, suggesting they once functioned as linked domestic spaces. The site was surveyed and described by J. Cuppage in the 1986 Dingle Peninsula Archaeological Survey, a systematic study of the Corca Dhuibhne region carried out under the Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne heritage project.