What makes it worth a second look is not simply its age but the layering of human activity pressed into its fabric: an early medieval enclosure that later generations quietly adapted, repaired, and repurposed until the original and the accumulated became almost inseparable.

The rath, a single-banked earthwork enclosure of a type common throughout early medieval Ireland, measures roughly 24 metres north to south and just under 27 metres east to west. Its earthen bank is faced on the interior with drystone walling, much of it repaired and rebuilt over time, and reaches a maximum external height of about 2.55 metres, with the inner facing still standing to nearly 1.85 metres in places. A shallow fosse, the ditch that typically runs outside such a bank, survives at only a few centimetres deep in places, worn down considerably from whatever depth it once held. The present entrance faces north, but this is not the original opening; a break in the bank at the south-east is thought to mark where the true entrance once stood. Built into the bank at the north-east is a clochaun, a small corbelled stone chamber of a kind found widely across the early Christian west of Ireland, its upper walls stepping inward course by course until large flat slabs seal the roof at a height of 1.4 metres. Its lintelled doorway, set into the south wall, stands 1.25 metres high. A second, smaller rectangular recess cut into the inner face of the bank is a more modest affair, barely 0.61 metres high, and both features are thought to be comparatively modern additions, probably animal pens or coops connected with a disused farmhouse that stands about 75 metres to the north-west. The Ballyheabought river runs south-westward through the valley roughly 375 metres away. The site was recorded and described by J. Cuppage in the 1986 Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey of the Corca Dhuibhne region, a landmark catalogue of the extraordinary concentration of early monuments on this part of the Kerry coast.