The enclosure is roughly thirty metres across, a modest but characteristic example of a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, which is the most common monument type surviving in the Irish countryside. These were typically the defended farmsteads of early medieval families, defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches enclosing a domestic space.

What gives this particular rath a small additional layer of interest is its recorded relationship with a near neighbour. When Ordnance Survey teams were mapping the area in the 1840s, they noted the existence of two raths in this part of the Aghadoe townland group, separated by about ten chains, a surveying unit equivalent to roughly two hundred metres. That pairing was captured both on the 1846 six-inch Ordnance Survey map, which shows the enclosure as a distinct circular feature abutting a north-south field boundary on its western side, and in the accompanying Ordnance Survey Name Books. The fact that two raths sat in such proximity to one another is not unusual in Kerry, where early medieval settlement could be dense, but having the original nineteenth-century documentation to confirm the pairing gives this site a certain archival clarity that many comparable monuments lack.