The site sits on a north-facing slope, and whoever built it could not simply throw up a circular enclosure and call it done. Instead, the interior was deliberately raised in its northern sector to produce a level platform, compensating for the natural fall of the ground. The result is a circular area of roughly 35 metres in diameter that reads, from inside, as flat and functional, while the external face of the bank climbs to about one and a half metres above the surrounding pasture. A ringfort, or rath, is an enclosed farmstead of the early medieval period, typically defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches and used as a dwelling place and livestock enclosure. Here, the builders added a further feature: a semicircular ledge, six metres wide and built up two metres above the external ground level, running along the outside of the northern arc of the bank. Its purpose is not entirely clear, but it suggests a site that was thought about carefully in relation to its terrain.

The rath appears on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1894, where it is shown as open at the east, consistent with the possible entrance identified there today, alongside a gap at the north-north-east. It is almost certainly the same monument recorded in the 1840s in the Ordnance Survey Name Books for the Aghadoe area, placing it in the documentary record for nearly two centuries. An east-west field boundary runs immediately north of the ledge, suggesting that the surrounding agricultural landscape has long since organised itself around the monument rather than erasing it. Roughly 85 metres to the north-west lies a possible fulacht fia, a type of prehistoric cooking site typically identified by a mound of fire-cracked stone and charcoal, often found near water. Whether the two sites are connected in any meaningful way is unknown, but their proximity adds a layer of interest to what might otherwise seem like a well-preserved but unremarkable enclosure in County Kerry pastureland.