What makes this particular rath, or earthen ringfort, quietly unusual is the way the landscape has been conscripted into its defences. Along the north-west quadrant, where you might expect a dug fosse, the encircling ditch is replaced entirely by a natural stream gully. Whoever chose this spot was thinking practically: why dig when the ground has already done the work? The internal diameter of the enclosure is around 26 metres, and the fosse elsewhere varies considerably, reaching between two and seven metres wide at its base and up to 2.8 metres deep below the crest of the bank.

The rath is univallate, meaning it has a single enclosing bank rather than the multiple concentric rings found at higher-status sites, but its interior layout suggests a reasonably organised settlement. A secondary internal bank curves across the north-western portion of the enclosure, separating off a discrete area that contains a circular hut foundation roughly six metres across. Beneath it, a souterrain runs from inside the hut toward the edge of the scarp. A souterrain is an underground passage, typically drystone-built, associated with early medieval Irish settlement and thought to have served for storage or concealment. Most of this one has collapsed or silted, surviving now only as a faint depression in the ground, but a short section preserved beneath the hut wall remains intact: three capstones roof a passage measuring 1.5 metres long, around 0.7 metres wide, and just 0.6 metres high. A second hut foundation, smaller and less regular in shape, sits just inside the bank to the south of what appears to be the original entrance, a three-metre gap on the north-east side. Both huts are grass-grown and low, their outlines legible mainly as stony banks a few centimetres proud of the surrounding ground. The site was documented by J. Cuppage as part of the Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey published in 1986.