Levelled completely during the 1950s, the site leaves nothing for a visitor to see, yet its former presence is quietly legible in the landscape: a modern field boundary curves with unusual deliberateness along the south side of the site, its arc a ghostly echo of the outer bank that once stood there. A ringfort, or rath, was a roughly circular enclosure typically used as a farmstead during the early medieval period in Ireland, defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches. This one was bivallate, meaning it had two concentric banks, which placed it among the more substantial examples of the type.

When surveyed in 1906 by a recorder named Cooke, the site was still intact enough to measure. The outer bank rose between three and six feet above the surrounding ground and was built from both earth and stone. Between the two banks ran a fosse, a defensive ditch, averaging around sixteen feet wide. The inner bank was up to ten feet across, and the enclosed interior measured 120 feet from north to south. Near the centre stood a circular stone structure about twenty feet in diameter, poorly preserved even then, which may have served as a hut site. A low bank ran eastward from this structure towards the inner enclosing wall, suggesting some internal organisation of the space. The fort sat north of Macgillycuddy's Reeks and west of the Gaddagh river, positioned in a landscape that was clearly well settled in earlier centuries, whatever its appearance today.