Ringforts, or raths, are earthen enclosures typically built during the early medieval period to protect a farmstead and its livestock, and this one follows the familiar oval plan. What makes it worth a second look is that interior feature, a raised mound whose precise purpose is not recorded, but which sits at a slightly elevated ground level, distinct from the rest of the interior.

The rath itself is univallate, meaning it is defended by a single encircling bank rather than the two or three concentric rings found at higher-status sites. That bank averages 5 metres in width and rises about a metre above the external ground level, though only around 60 centimetres above the interior floor. A fosse, the drainage or defensive ditch dug outside the bank, is visible along the northern to western arc, running between 2 and 4 metres wide and roughly half a metre deep. The interior measures approximately 34 metres north to south and 28 metres east to west. A fieldbank follows the northern to eastern edge of the site, suggesting the enclosure has been absorbed into the working agricultural landscape around it, its ancient boundary quietly repurposed as a field division. The detailed description of the site comes from Catherine Toal's North Kerry Archaeological Survey, published in 1995.