It occupies elevated ground with an open view westward over the surrounding countryside, which is precisely the kind of position that early medieval farmers and their families would have chosen when enclosing a farmstead within a rath, a roughly circular earthwork of banked ditches designed as much for social display as for defence. The earthworks here have been levelled entirely, leaving no surface trace.

The site would have remained largely unremarked had it not appeared in aerial photography taken by Dr D.D.C. Pochin Mould, which revealed two concentric light-coloured rings in the soil, the inner measuring approximately 35 metres in diameter and the outer approximately 57 metres across. That double-ring plan is significant; a univallate rath with a single enclosing bank is common enough across Cork and the rest of Ireland, but a bivallate example with two concentric enclosures often suggests a site of greater status or a more elaborate original construction. The inner diameter of roughly 35 metres matches what was recorded on Ordnance Survey six-inch maps from 1842, 1904, and 1936, meaning the enclosure was consistently legible on those maps across nearly a century before it was finally lost at ground level. There is also a possible souterrain within the interior, a souterrain being an underground stone-lined passage associated with early medieval settlement, sometimes used for cool storage, sometimes for refuge. Its presence here remains unconfirmed.