That kind of indignity is not unusual for early medieval ringforts across Ireland, but what survives here, at the head of the Oghermong river valley in upland Kerry, is still legible enough to read. The rath, a ringfort defined by an earthen bank rather than a stone wall, sits on a gently sloping platform of roughly circular plan measuring just over twenty metres across internally. The enclosing bank, low now and reaching no more than 0.7 metres at its highest, retains intermittent stretches of drystone facing, some of it collapsed, which once revetted the earthwork and gave it a more formidable profile. Two possible entrance gaps survive, one facing roughly east-south-east and another to the south-west, and in the northern half of the interior a scattering of low, shapeless mounds hints at structures or activity that has yet to be properly unpicked.

The setting rewards attention in its own right. The site occupies rough upland pasture at the head of a river valley, with Valentia Harbour opening out to the west below. Ringforts of this type, typically dated to the early medieval period between roughly the fifth and twelfth centuries, were the farmsteads of their age, enclosing a household and its outbuildings within a defined boundary that signalled both security and social standing. One further detail complicates the picture here. Older Ordnance Survey maps recorded a gallaun, a single standing stone, within the rath's interior to the east. When A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan surveyed the Iveragh Peninsula for their 1996 Cork University Press archaeological survey, no trace of it remained. Whether it was removed, fell and was absorbed into the landscape, or was never quite where the mapmakers placed it, is now impossible to say.