What makes it worth a second look is a detail easy to miss: the western and south-western stretch of the bank was reinforced at some later point with stone facing, suggesting the site was not simply abandoned after its original use but returned to, modified, and perhaps put to work again by people who saw value in an already-standing enclosure.

The earthwork is a univallate rath, meaning it has a single enclosing bank rather than the multiple concentric rings seen at more elaborate sites. Ringforts of this type were the dominant form of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, typically dating from roughly the sixth to the tenth century, and thousands survive across the country in varying states of preservation. This one measures some 51 metres across its interior on a north-east to south-west axis, placing it comfortably within the range of a substantial farmstead enclosure. The bank itself is around seven metres wide at its base, rising just over a metre on the external face and somewhat less on the interior side. It is fairly overgrown now, built of earth and stone, with a gap of about five metres on the south-eastern side and a gate opening on the north-western side, the latter likely a later insertion given the post-medieval stone facing elsewhere on the bank. The north Kerry landscape holds a considerable number of such sites, documented as part of a systematic archaeological survey of the region published in 1995.