To a passing eye it might read as a low natural rise, but the geometry gives it away: a nearly perfect circle with an internal diameter of twenty-eight metres, built by human hands at some point during the early medieval period.

This is a rath, the most common type of ringfort found across Ireland. Raths were typically the enclosed farmsteads of early medieval farming families, the earthen bank serving less as a military fortification and more as a boundary marker and enclosure for livestock, with a family's dwelling and outbuildings sitting within. What is notable here is the difference in height between inside and out. The bank stands at a maximum of 2.4 metres on its exterior face but only around 0.8 metres above the interior, which itself sits at a higher level than the ground outside, suggesting both the upcast from digging and the gradual accumulation of occupation layers within. The site sits to the south-south-east of another recorded monument in the area, placing it within what was likely a broader pattern of early medieval settlement across this part of north Kerry. C. Toal's North Kerry Archaeological Survey, published in 1995, recorded the site in its survey of the region's field monuments, and the description of the interior as quite overgrown suggests that whatever once stood within has long since dissolved back into the ground.