Most raths, the circular earthwork enclosures built by early medieval Irish farming communities as farmsteads or places of status, tend to occupy more accommodating ground. This one sits on a sharp incline above the Anascaul valley, its bank and fosse cut into terrain that would have made daily life considerably more demanding than the norm.

The enclosure is roughly circular, measuring about 22 metres north to south and 21 metres east to west internally. It is univallate, meaning it has a single encircling bank rather than the two or three concentric rings that mark higher-status sites. That bank still stands to 1.6 metres on the outer face at its northern side, though it has been eroded and obscured in places: a disused laneway, now densely overgrown, runs alongside the western section, making it unclear whether the external fosse, the ditch cut around the outside of the bank, survives there. A field boundary further muddies things along the northeast. Inside the enclosure, the remains of a hut-site survive as a low stony bank enclosing an oval area of roughly four by six metres, which gives some sense of the domestic scale of whatever structure once stood here. The north-facing entrance, just 1.8 metres wide, is still legible in the earthwork. The site was recorded and described by J. Cuppage in the 1986 Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey, a landmark piece of fieldwork covering the Corca Dhuibhne region.

The position on the slope, awkward as it is for habitation, does explain why someone chose to build here at all. The view north over the Anascaul valley from this particular angle of hillside would have offered a clear and commanding prospect of the surrounding land, which in an early medieval context was itself a form of utility.