What makes it worth pausing over is not its scale, which is modest at roughly twenty-three metres across, but the density of activity compressed within and around it. A blocked opening in the inner face of the bank almost certainly marks the entrance to a souterrain, an underground stone-lined passage of the kind used in early medieval Ireland for storage or refuge, and a dry-stone lintelled air-vent on the outer face of the bank still leads toward it. That two elements of this hidden infrastructure remain legible in the landscape, after however many centuries of weathering and agricultural encroachment, gives the site a particular quiet persistence.

The rath itself is univallate, meaning it has a single enclosing earthen bank and a corresponding outer ditch, or fosse. The bank varies considerably in height, from a modest thirty centimetres on the interior up to one and a half metres above the base of the fosse, which is still two and a half metres wide even if barely visible above the level of the surrounding field. A field boundary running close to the southeastern edge has effectively swallowed whatever trace of the fosse once existed in that sector. Large stones set along the inner edge of the bank to the east hint at a revetment wall, a facing of stone used to stabilise an earthen structure, though much has been lost. Against the western bank, the collapsed remains of a small hut survive as little more than a low rubble ring enclosing an area of about four metres square. Nearby to the northeast, the foundations of a rectangular house, over twelve metres long internally, are considered post-medieval in origin, suggesting the site attracted successive phases of settlement across different periods. The Kerry Field Club noted a large circular stone hut to the west of the ringfort as recently as 1946, but no visible trace of it now remains.