That classification alone says something about how dramatically time and weather can reduce a site. A ringfort, or rath, was a roughly circular enclosure, typically defined by earthen banks and ditches, used as a farmstead or defended homestead across early medieval Ireland. Here, on the Iveragh Peninsula in south Kerry, almost nothing of that original form remains visible to the eye.

The first edition of the Ordnance Survey map recorded the site as a semicircular outline, which at least confirmed that something coherent existed when surveyors came through in the nineteenth century. More intriguingly, the OS Fair Plan named the site "Caher", a term normally associated with a stone fort rather than an earthen rath, and depicted a rectangular structure aligned north-east to south-west within its north-eastern sector. That rectangular element has since vanished entirely. What survives today are the two slabs, aligned east to west and separated by just 0.93 metres. The northern pillar stands 1.55 metres high and leans slightly northward; the southern stands 1.4 metres and is marginally smaller at its base. A barely perceptible bank trails a short distance from each stone, the last physical echo of whatever enclosure once stood here. Whether these two pillars formed a gateway, a structural remnant of the caher wall, or something else entirely is not recorded.