Whether that name reflects a practical use, a local memory, or simply a farmer's dry humour is impossible to say now, but it lends the place an unpretentious particularity that suits it well.

A ringfort, or rath, is an enclosed circular settlement typical of early medieval Ireland, usually consisting of an earthen bank and outer ditch surrounding a domestic interior. This one is univallate, meaning it has a single enclosing bank rather than two or three concentric ones. That bank is still well-defined, running to around six metres wide and rising between 1.2 and 2.4 metres above the exterior ground level. The outer fosse, a shallow defensive ditch roughly 1.4 metres wide and 0.6 metres deep, can be traced around most of the circuit, fading only along the north-east to southern arc. Inside, the ground sits noticeably higher than the surrounding land, a detail that gives the interior a slightly stage-like quality. The remains of a stone-built rectangular house survive within, measuring 14 by 6.6 metres internally, with walls an unusually solid two metres thick. A few metres to the north of that structure, a stone-lined circular depression may mark the entrance to a souterrain, an underground passage or chamber often used in early medieval settlements for storage or as a place of refuge. On the outer side of the southern bank, a small semi-circular annexe curves back towards the main enclosure; its modest bank and internal width of around seven metres suggest it may have functioned as a subsidiary hut site, perhaps for animals or equipment rather than people. The entrance gap, at just over ten metres wide, opens to the south-east.

The site was surveyed and documented as part of the North Kerry Archaeological Survey, published in 1995 by C. Toal, a systematic effort to record the remarkable density of early monuments across this part of the county.