A rath is a ringfort, the circular earthen enclosure used in early medieval Ireland as a farmstead or place of habitation, and they are common enough across Kerry. What is less common is finding one that contains a secondary circular structure of its own, a kind of enclosure within an enclosure, with its own entrance and its own internal arrangement.

The inner enclosure is roughly ten metres in diameter, defined by an earth and stone bank that rises to about 0.8 metres. Its entrance, just over a metre wide, faces east and is marked by substantial stones on either side. What makes the structure more curious still is a linear feature extending westward from the bank, running toward the inner face of the outer rath's western bank. This connecting element actually increases in height as it travels west, rising from 0.7 metres to somewhere between 0.85 and 0.95 metres. Whether it served as a dividing wall, a passageway, or some form of animal pen is not recorded. The whole arrangement sits 7.7 metres northwest of the main eastern entrance to the rath itself, which suggests a deliberate spatial logic, even if that logic is no longer fully legible. Loose stones scattered along the top of the inner bank add to the sense of a structure that has partially settled back into the earth without entirely disappearing.