A rath, as these enclosures are known, is a type of early medieval farmstead enclosed by an earthen bank and ditch, typically dating from roughly the fifth to the twelfth centuries. This one is univallate, meaning it has a single enclosing bank rather than the two or three rings sometimes seen at higher-status sites. What makes it quietly compelling is the layering of interventions it has absorbed across the centuries, each one leaving a different kind of mark on the original structure.

The site has an internal diameter of 33 metres and was documented in J. Cuppage's 1986 Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. By the nineteenth century, a track had been cut across the enclosure in a zig-zag line from north-west to east-north-east, and where the bank had stood between those two points, it was replaced with a field boundary fence. At some later point, the track was realigned to run along the inner edge of the western bank. A small stream now passes through a deep gully skirting the outer edge of that same western stretch, where the bank rises 3.6 metres above the stream bed. The south-eastern section of the bank is faced on its outer side with herring-bone masonry, a decorative diagonal stonework pattern, though the same style appears in nearby field fences, suggesting this facing was applied later when the bank was pressed into service as a field boundary rather than as part of the original construction. Of the four gaps in the bank, three are clearly the result of the old track, but a fourth, at the south-east, may preserve the original entrance. It is two metres wide, lined on one side with drystone masonry and on the other by an upright slab, with a second jambstone set mid-way across the opening and collapsed walling beyond it. Whether the various stonework features at that entrance belong to one phase or several remains, as yet, unresolved.