Most raths, the circular or oval earthwork enclosures built across Ireland during the early medieval period, enclose a relatively clear interior where a farmstead once stood. This one, on slightly boggy ground in Glouria, contains an oblong mound in its southern sector measuring nearly ten metres by just under four, an internal feature that does not fit neatly into the standard domestic picture.

The site is a univallate rath, meaning it has a single enclosing bank rather than the two or three concentric rings found at higher-status examples. Its oval interior measures thirty metres north to south and thirty-eight metres east to west, enclosed by an earthen bank that rises to 1.5 metres on its outer face and about a metre on the inside. Running around the outside is a fosse, the shallow external ditch that would have added to the visual and practical height of the bank when the site was in use. That fosse survives almost all the way round, except to the north and north-east, where it can no longer be made out. Where it does survive it measures around 1.6 metres wide and half a metre deep. An entrance gap to the south-east, roughly 2.4 metres across, is the most likely original opening. Beyond the interior mound, there is a second, smaller mound just outside the northern side of the bank, measuring three metres by 2.4 metres, which may or may not be connected with the rath itself. Both features were recorded and described by C. Toal in the North Kerry Archaeological Survey, published in 1995. Neither has been conclusively explained.