The interior measures approximately 42 metres east to west and 38.5 metres north to south, making it a reasonably substantial example of a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, which was the standard form of enclosed farmstead used across Ireland from the early medieval period roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries. What makes this one worth pausing over is how much of it remains intact, and how much of the original domestic arrangement can still be read from what survives.

The enclosure is defined by a single earthen bank and an accompanying fosse, which is essentially a ditch dug to reinforce the defensive height of the bank. Here the fosse reaches 1.75 metres below the external ground level and up to 4 metres below the crest of the bank, figures that suggest a substantial original investment of labour. Oddly, the fosse does not continue around the northern sector of the enclosure, an irregularity that may reflect the natural slope of the ground or a later modification. The bank itself varies considerably in height, from half a metre to 3.5 metres on its inner face, and there are faint traces of stone facing surviving along its inner eastern edge. Entry into the interior was originally made across an 8-metre-wide causeway over the fosse at the south-west, though the corresponding gap in the bank has narrowed to just half a metre. Inside, the remains of a roughly rectangular stone hut survive, measuring about 7.5 by 8.5 metres internally, with collapsed walls still standing to around 0.7 metres and built to a thickness of roughly 2 metres. A further stretch of ruined walling, running for about 9 metres and lying 5.5 metres to the east of the hut, may represent a second structure. The rest of the interior is covered in cultivation ridges, the corrugated traces of small-scale tillage that was likely worked long after the rath itself fell out of use as an enclosure. The site was recorded and described by J. Cuppage as part of the Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey published in 1986.