Most ringforts, or raths, consist of a roughly circular enclosure defined by one or more raised banks and accompanying ditches, and were used as farmsteads or high-status residences from roughly the fifth to the twelfth centuries. What makes this one quietly puzzling is the asymmetry of its survival: the outer bank exists only around the eastern half of the site, while the fosse, the defensive ditch that once ran alongside it, becomes increasingly faint as it traces the western arc of the enclosure.

The rath is classified as bivallate, meaning it originally had two concentric banks rather than one, which would have placed it a step above the most common single-bank variety and suggested a household of some local standing. The interior measures roughly 21.5 metres east to west and 20.5 metres north to south, a modest but workable oval. Where the outer bank survives on the eastern side, the fosse rises about one metre to its crest and up to two metres to the crest of the inner bank, giving a reasonable sense of how the earthworks once presented themselves. At the southern end, the outer bank appears to curve inward toward the inner bank, a configuration that may represent the remains of a causeway crossing the fosse, though the inner bank is so low at that point that no definite entrance can be confirmed. A second possible entrance exists at the northern side. The site was catalogued by J. Cuppage in the 1986 Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey, which remains a foundational reference for the archaeology of the Corca Dhuibhne region.

The gradual erosion of the western earthworks, likely the result of centuries of agricultural activity on level, workable ground, is itself a reminder of how much of this landscape's early medieval infrastructure has quietly receded. What remains rewards close attention to ground level, where the surviving banks and the faint trace of the fosse repay the kind of unhurried looking that low-lying earthwork sites require.