The site is a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, the most common monument type surviving in the Irish countryside. Ringforts were typically the enclosed farmsteads of early medieval Ireland, roughly dating from the sixth to the twelfth centuries, their earthen banks defining both a domestic space and a social boundary. This one is roughly circular, around thirty metres in diameter, and heavily overgrown, which makes it easy to miss even when you are standing close to it.

What survives is modest but legible if you know what to look for. An earthen bank encloses the interior, still standing about 0.6 metres high on the inside. To the south and south-east, an external fosse, essentially a ditch dug to reinforce the barrier and supply material for the bank, remains visible to a depth of around 0.72 metres. Along the southern side, the bank carries a low stone wall along its top, a detail that suggests either a later modification or a localised building tradition that combined earth and stone construction. This combination is not unusual in County Cork, where the geology makes stone a ready supplement to earthwork, but it gives the site a slightly composite character that distinguishes it from a purely earthen enclosure.