The site is a univallate rath, meaning a ringfort defined by a single enclosing bank, roughly circular in plan and measuring about 23 metres across at its widest. Ringforts of this kind were the dominant form of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, typically serving as enclosed farmsteads for a family and their livestock. What makes this particular example worth pausing over is the level of detail that survives: not just the earthen bank, but the drystone revetment lining its inner face in places, a fosse, and even the faint trace of an outer bank on the north-eastern side.

The entrance gap, just 1.2 metres wide and facing due south, is edged with drystone masonry on its western side, suggesting that whoever built this was working with both earth and stone, shaping a domestic threshold with some care. The fosse, a defensive ditch running outside the main bank, is 2.5 metres wide and 0.75 metres deep, and the vertical rise from the bottom of that ditch to the crest of the inner bank reaches 2.1 metres, a modest but meaningful barrier. Inside the enclosure, the most telling survival is a possible hut site near the centre: a band of small stones forming a roughly 3.5-metre square, open to the south. There is also a circular depression in the north-western interior, about 2.5 metres across and half a metre deep, whose purpose is uncertain. The western stretch of the bank has been reduced to a low scarp over time, and a later stone field-wall has cut into the north-western sector, as generations of farmers quietly reshaped the land around this much older boundary. The site was recorded and described by J. Cuppage as part of the Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey published in 1986.