Where you might expect a continuous circular bank, the northern and western sides offer only a gentle rise above the surrounding land, as though the enclosure was never quite finished, or as though centuries of flooding and farming have quietly dismantled what was once there. It is this asymmetry that makes the site worth pausing over.

The earthwork is classified as a univallate rath, meaning it has a single enclosing bank rather than the multiple concentric rings found at more elaborate sites. Ringforts of this type were the most common form of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, typically serving as enclosed farmsteads for a single family or small community. This one encloses a sub-circular area roughly 32 metres north to south and 24 metres east to west. Where the bank survives, it is substantial enough, running to about 6 metres wide at the base and rising 1.5 metres above the exterior ground level. An exterior fosse, the drainage or defensive ditch that typically accompanied such banks, survives on the northern through eastern to southern arc, and is best preserved to the south, where it retains a clean U-shaped profile, about 1.4 metres wide and 0.6 metres deep. A wide gap of 13 metres opens to the southeast, which may represent the original entrance or, more likely, a later breach. The site was documented in C. Toal's North Kerry Archaeological Survey, published in 1995.

The immediate setting beside the Galey River is worth noting. The low, damp ground of Inch-Moor would have provided water and grazing, the kinds of practical considerations that governed where early medieval farmers chose to establish themselves. The partial survival of the fosse on the southern arc suggests that this side has seen less disturbance, possibly because the boggy ground discouraged later agricultural activity. The numerous other breaks in the bank, by contrast, are likely the result of centuries of field clearance and general land use reshaping what had already become an ancient curiosity rather than a functional boundary.