An oval-shaped mound, roughly 7.8 metres by 3 metres across internally and only 0.6 metres high, is all that remains of what was once a ringfort, the kind of circular earthen enclosure that early medieval Irish farming families built in enormous numbers to protect their households and livestock. Thousands of these raths once dotted the Irish countryside; this one has been almost completely levelled.

The site was still legible enough to be recorded on Ordnance Survey maps made between 1841 and 1842, and again on the revised edition produced between 1914 and 1915. That the enclosure appears on both suggests it held its shape, however modestly, into the early twentieth century. At some point after 1915, the process of destruction accelerated to the point where the circular form was lost entirely, leaving only the low residual mound that C. Toal documented in the 1995 North Kerry Archaeological Survey. The transformation from identifiable monument to near-invisible earthwork is itself a familiar story in the Irish landscape, where ploughing, drainage works, and agricultural improvement have quietly erased features that survived more or less intact for over a thousand years.