Most raths, the circular earthen enclosures built across Ireland roughly between the early medieval period and the Norman arrival, present a more or less flat interior once you climb inside. Here, the ground within the bank is already elevated above the surrounding field, and then rises further still into a kidney-shaped mound some six metres high in the south-western sector. Set into the in-curve of that mound is an opening measuring roughly 2.4 by 2.2 metres, identified as the likely entrance to a souterrain, an underground stone-lined passage of the kind early medieval communities used for storage and, in times of danger, concealment. Alongside it sit two further mounds, one small and roughly rectangular, another sub-circular, clustered together in a way that makes the interior feel less like an enclosure and more like a miniature landscape.

The rath itself is univallate, meaning it has a single enclosing bank rather than the two or three concentric rings found at more elaborate sites. That bank is well-preserved, roughly six metres wide and reaching 4.4 metres in height on the outside, with a fosse, a defensive ditch, still traceable along its south-western to south-eastern arc, sitting about a metre below the level of the surrounding land. The interior spans approximately 35 metres north to south and 34 metres east to west, entered through two gaps, one to the east at around eight metres wide and one to the west at roughly four metres. The site sits in the corner of a gently northward-sloping pastoral field, and was documented in detail by C. Toal in the North Kerry Archaeological Survey, published in 1995.