From the outside, the bank rises to an average of 2.25 metres, which is enough to give it presence in the landscape; from the inside, that same bank barely clears a metre at its highest point. The asymmetry is characteristic of a rath, an early medieval enclosed farmstead typically built of earth rather than stone, where the outward-facing profile was deliberately pronounced, and where the interior was a working domestic space rather than a fortified stronghold.

This particular rath sits at around 483 feet above sea level, oriented to take in wide views across the estuary where the Scorid and Glennahoo rivers meet before reaching the bay. The one direction it cannot see is to the north-north-east, where the hillslope rises and closes the outlook. The enclosing bank, roughly 4 metres wide at its base, is breached by a narrow entrance gap to the south-south-west, just 1.6 metres across, its eastern side reinforced by two large upright stones set on edge. Inside, the ground tells a quieter story: there are cultivation ridges running across the interior, along with a cairn of clearance stones, the kind of low pile that accumulates over generations as farmers work rocks out of the soil and stack them somewhere out of the way. A modern drainage ditch has been cut along the northern and eastern outer edges of the bank, which slightly complicates the original profile. The site was documented by J. Cuppage in the 1986 Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey, a thorough inventory of the Corca Dhuibhne region that recorded hundreds of sites across this archaeologically dense stretch of the Kerry coast.

The cultivation ridges inside the enclosure are worth pausing over. They suggest that long after the rath ceased to function as a farmstead in any early medieval sense, the enclosed ground continued to be worked, the old bank simply becoming a convenient field boundary. The cairn of clearance stones reinforces this, pointing to repeated agricultural use across an unknown span of time. The site, in other words, is not a single frozen moment but a palimpsest of land use, with each layer of activity leaving something visible for anyone who looks carefully at the ground.