The plants, spreading in a two-metre-wide belt just outside the enclosing bank, are thought to mark the line of a fosse, the defensive ditch that once ringed the structure, now filled in and invisible underfoot. The vegetation has quietly preserved the outline of something that would otherwise have disappeared entirely.

The site is a univallate rath, meaning a ringfort enclosed by a single earthen bank rather than the multiple concentric rings found at more elaborate examples. Ringforts of this type were the typical farmstead enclosure of early medieval Ireland, used to protect a family's home and livestock rather than to garrison soldiers or defend territory. This one sits on level ground at the inner edge of the low-lying land around Trabeg, and its earthen bank survives to a height of nearly two metres on the interior side and just under that on the exterior, making it reasonably well-preserved for a site of its kind. The interior diameter measures 26 metres across. The entrance, facing south-southwest, is 1.9 metres wide, and its eastern side retains two courses of stone masonry, a detail that speaks to an original structure more carefully finished than the earthwork alone would suggest. The other breaks in the bank appear to be later and incidental rather than original features. The site was recorded and described by J. Cuppage as part of the Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey of the Dingle Peninsula, published in 1986.