This is a univallate rath, meaning a ringfort enclosed by a single earthen bank, and the ring of Yellow Flag iris (Iris pseudacorus) growing in a 3.5-metre-wide band along its outer edge is one of its more unexpected features. The flags are almost certainly colonising a filled-in fosse, the drainage ditch that would once have ringed the bank and added to its defensive effect. A 5.5-metre break in that band of flowers, aligned with the probable original entrance at the north-north-west, hints at where a causeway once crossed the ditch.

The rath measures roughly 28 metres north to south and just over 20 metres east to west, with an oval interior that slopes gently westward. The enclosing bank stands up to 1.8 metres high on its outer face and 1.3 metres on the inner, though it has been levelled in the south-south-west sector and a field fence now runs along the outside of the bank there. At the north-east, a 4.8-metre stretch of the bank's inner face survives with its original drystone revetment still standing to 1.1 metres; scattered stones elsewhere along the bank suggest this facing was once more extensive. The interior is crossed by a series of cultivation ridges, evidence that the enclosure was put to agricultural use at some point after its initial construction and occupation. The description of the site draws on J. Cuppage's 1986 archaeological survey of the Dingle Peninsula, Corca Dhuibhne, which catalogued a landscape unusually dense with early medieval and prehistoric remains.

The site sits about 50 metres south of a small westward-flowing river, on ground elevated enough to give a clear outlook across the valley. The six breaks in the eastern half of the bank are considered secondary, meaning they were likely made after the rath fell out of use, probably to allow stock or farm machinery through. What survives is still coherent enough to read as a complete enclosure, particularly if you follow the outer edge and look for where the iris band thins and breaks near the entrance gap.