A rath is an early medieval earthen enclosure, typically circular, built to define a farmstead and provide a degree of security for its inhabitants and livestock. This one originally measured around thirty metres across, a modest but typical example, and it sat at the western end of a low ridge in gently rolling Kerry countryside. Today the eastern half has effectively vanished, absorbed into a north-south field boundary, leaving a D-shaped remnant defined by an overgrown earthen bank on its western arc and a straight agricultural boundary where the curve used to close.

The transformation is well documented in the Ordnance Survey record. The 1846 six-inch map shows the rath as a complete circular enclosure, with field boundaries running off its bank to the north and south, suggesting the surrounding land was already being organised around it. By the 1894 edition, only the western half appears, meaning the eastern portion was absorbed into the working farm landscape sometime in the intervening decades. What remains is still substantial in places: the bank runs to over six metres wide and stands more than two metres high on its exterior face in sections, with an internal scarp reaching 1.7 metres. The interior sits slightly above the surrounding ground level, a common feature of raths where centuries of occupation and enclosure have allowed material to accumulate. Cattle gaps punched through the bank at various points confirm that the enclosure has long since been folded into everyday pastoral use, the ancient boundary now serving the same basic purpose it always did, containing animals, just under different management.