A rath, as these early medieval earthwork enclosures are commonly called, would originally have consisted of one or more circular banks and ditches enclosing a farmstead, home to a farming family and their livestock perhaps fifteen hundred years ago. This one survives as a cartographic ghost: visible on the Ordnance Survey maps of 1841 to 1842, gone from the later edition, and leaving no trace whatsoever on the ground today.

The earlier OS survey recorded a circular enclosure at this location, with a fieldbank running along its southern to south-western bank. That detail suggests the site was already being absorbed into the agricultural landscape by the time the surveyors arrived, the ancient earthwork repurposed or simply worn away as field boundaries shifted and land was worked more intensively across the nineteenth century. C. Toal's North Kerry Archaeological Survey, published in 1995, documented the site as part of a systematic effort to record what remained, or in this case, what had already gone. By then, nothing was left to see.

What makes the site quietly interesting is precisely this completeness of disappearance. Many ringforts have been damaged or reduced; this one has been entirely consumed by the landscape around it, surviving only because someone thought to note it down before it vanished entirely from both the earth and living memory.