But out in the pasture above Darrynane Bay, there is a quietly peculiar oval space, roughly eight and a half metres from north to south and just under eight metres across, ringed by a low wall that has survived long enough to attract the attentions of archaeological surveyors.

The wall itself tells a modest but legible story. It is built with a rubble core, the kind of construction that makes use of whatever stone was to hand, and faced on the inside with intermittent upright slabs set at intervals rather than in a continuous line. That combination of loose rubble and deliberately placed uprights suggests something more considered than a simple field boundary, though its precise age and function remain unrecorded. What complicates the picture slightly is the field clearance material piled against the south-western sector of the wall, where generations of farmers removing stones from surrounding land have left their own deposits against the older structure. This layering of uses, an ancient enclosure gradually acquiring a secondary role as a dumping ground for cleared stone, is common across Irish farmland and makes it harder to read the original form with any confidence. The site was documented as part of the archaeological survey of the Iveragh Peninsula, the long finger of land in County Kerry that reaches out into the Atlantic and contains an unusually dense concentration of early remains.