A rath is a ringfort, typically an early medieval farmstead enclosed by an earthen bank and ditch, and this one belongs to a landscape on the Dingle Peninsula that is extraordinarily dense with such monuments. What makes this particular site quietly puzzling is not what survives but what does not: a souterrain, one of those narrow stone-lined underground passages that were commonly built within raths, probably for storage or refuge, was clearly present here at some point. The first edition of the Ordnance Survey map marks it at the centre of the enclosure. No trace of it remains today.

The souterrain's appearance on the early OS map, which in Kerry dates to the mid-nineteenth century, means it was at least visible or known to surveyors at that time. By the time the Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey was carried out by J. Cuppage, published in 1986 under the title Corca Dhuibhne, it had vanished entirely from the ground. Whether it collapsed, was deliberately filled in, or was simply obscured by centuries of agricultural use is unrecorded. The rath itself, described as a circular univallate enclosure, meaning a single-banked ringfort, sits on ground that would have given its original occupants a clear view down to the river valley below, a typical consideration in the siting of such settlements during the early medieval period.