The site is a cahir, a type of stone-walled ringfort, and its unusual crescent form sets it apart from the more commonly encountered circular examples scattered across the Irish landscape. Where most ringforts relied on their enclosing bank alone for protection, this one also makes use of the natural terrain: a steep glen drops away along the western side, doing part of the defensive work without a single stone being laid.

The enclosing bank is still well defined despite its grassy covering, rising to one metre on the interior face and slightly less on the exterior. Inside, the three beehive huts, corbelled dry-stone structures built without mortar by laying stones in progressively narrowing courses until they meet at a cap, are arranged so that they interlock with one another rather than standing separately. Much of the stonework has been obscured over time, though exposed dry-stone walling remains visible in the northernmost hut. That structure measures roughly eighteen metres north to south and up to eight metres east to west, with surviving walls between one and three metres high. A small opening of about three and a half metres faces south-east, and a separate gap of around two and a half metres breaks the enclosing bank. The site was recorded by C. Toal in the North Kerry Archaeological Survey, published in 1995, which remains one of the primary catalogues of this kind of monument in the region.