One of its two concentric earthen banks has been pressed into service as a field boundary, which is common enough across Ireland, but the arrangement here is slightly puzzling: there is no clear formal entrance through that outer bank, suggesting it may not be original to the site at all, or was significantly remodelled at some point after the rath was first constructed.

A rath is an early medieval enclosed farmstead, typically dating from roughly the fifth to the twelfth century, defined by one or more circular earthen banks and ditches. This example is more substantial than most. The inner bank reaches three metres above the fosse, the wide defensive ditch separating the two rings, and the fosse itself ranges between 3.5 and six metres wide and drops to a maximum depth of three metres, dimensions that mark this out as a well-defended enclosure rather than a modest farmyard boundary. The internal area measures roughly 24 by 25 metres. A break in the inner bank at the eastern side, accompanied by a slight causeway across the fosse, is the most likely candidate for the original entrance, though no corresponding gap survives in the outer bank to confirm a straight path through. Whether the outer bank was always there, or added later, or substantially rebuilt when it was absorbed into the field system, remains an open question. Portions of it are faced in drystone masonry, which hints at some deliberate maintenance or construction, though it is not possible to say with confidence how much of what is visible today is early medieval and how much is the result of later agricultural reuse. The site was recorded in J. Cuppage's 1986 archaeological survey of the Corca Dhuibhne region, which remains one of the more thorough field surveys carried out on the peninsula.