Most raths, the earthen-banked farmstead enclosures built across Ireland from roughly the early medieval period onward, present their interiors as blank grass. This one does not. A series of earthen ridges extends from the western side of the interior, running eastward for over seventeen metres, and a low circular mound sits at their end. A further pair of ridges extends southward from that mound toward the far bank. The overall arrangement is unusual enough that surveyors have suggested these features may be the traces of house-sites, the faint geometry of domestic life pressed into the ground more than a thousand years ago.

The rath itself is a univallate example, meaning it has a single enclosing bank rather than the concentric rings that sometimes signal higher-status sites. The bank is substantial in its own way: roughly seven metres wide at the base, and rising to 3.6 metres above the external fosse, the drainage and defensive ditch that rings the outside. That fosse runs almost continuously around the site, broken only to the north and north-east where a later field boundary has cut through it. Access to the interior, which sits at a slightly elevated level relative to the surrounding land, was through a gap of about four metres to the south-east. The site sits on gently rising pastureland with an open view across the surrounding countryside, the kind of position early medieval farming families chose deliberately, for both practical oversight and, presumably, a measure of prestige. The measurements and internal features were documented in detail by C. Toal in the North Kerry Archaeological Survey, published in 1995.