Set into the West Cork landscape, this ringfort, known more precisely as a rath, a type of enclosed farmstead built throughout early medieval Ireland typically between the sixth and tenth centuries, has held its basic shape for well over a thousand years. Part of it is now partially overgrown, and the ground tells the story in fragments rather than in one clear outline.

The enclosure measures roughly 21 metres east to west and 24 metres north to south, making it a modest but reasonably complete example of its type. On the eastern and southern sides the boundary is formed by a scarp, a cut or slope in the ground rather than a built-up bank. To the southwest and running around to the north, however, a proper earthen bank survives, reaching a maximum height of 1.6 metres. This distinction matters: it suggests the builders adapted their construction method to the natural contours of the land, using the slope where it was useful and raising a bank where the ground offered less natural protection. On the western side there are the remains of an external fosse, a defensive ditch, still measurable at around 3 metres wide and 0.85 metres deep. Notably, the internal face of the bank on this western side retains some stone facing, a detail that implies a degree of construction effort beyond the purely functional, and one that is not always preserved in earthwork enclosures of this kind.