The remains amount to a modest length of walling, roughly half a metre high and traceable for just under nine metres along its southern arc, with a series of upright slabs set at right angles along its inner face. A low earthen bank picks up where the stonework fades, sketching out the northern and western edges of what was once a subcircular enclosure. The interior offers nothing obvious to the eye.

The site belongs to a class of early medieval monument known as a ringfort or rath, a type of enclosed farmstead that once dotted the Irish countryside in extraordinary numbers, typically defined by a circular bank and ditch or, in stone-rich areas like Kerry, by a dry-stone wall. What makes this particular example of interest is a note left by the antiquarian Thomas Johnson Westropp, who recorded the site in 1912 as a partly destroyed fort on the flank of Cool hill, and mentioned the presence of a souterrain. A souterrain is an underground stone-lined passage or chamber, usually associated with early medieval settlement and thought to have served for storage, refuge, or both. Whether any trace of that passage survives beneath the surface is unclear from what can be observed above ground, and the site as it stands today gives little away.