A univallate ringfort, meaning one enclosed by a single earthen bank or wall, once sat in the middle of a neat line of three such enclosures in this part of north Kerry. By the time aerial photography could confirm it was still there at all, in 1977, only a slight trace remained visible from the air. Now even that is gone, the land levelled to the point where no surface trace survives.

The ringfort appears on Ordnance Survey maps from both 1841 to 1842 and 1915 to 1916, each time recorded as a circular enclosure, which tells us it was still recognisable as a landscape feature well into the twentieth century. What makes this particular site quietly strange is its position: it was the middle fort in a trio, presumably spaced along the same alignment, and two of its neighbours are recorded nearby. Whether those three forts shared a common origin, or accumulated over different periods, the source material does not say. What the maps and aerial photographs do confirm is a pattern of deliberate arrangement in the landscape, now largely erased. Ringforts of this kind were typically built during the early medieval period, serving as enclosed farmsteads for farming families of varying social rank, and their clustering in groups is not unusual across Ireland, though it always prompts questions about the relationships between those who built and lived in them.