That much is certain. Beyond the bare fact of its classification and location, the details remain, for now, formally unrecorded in any publicly accessible form.

The townland name itself offers a small clue to the layered nature of this part of Kerry. "Oughter" derives from the Irish "uachtar", meaning upper, distinguishing this division of Ballyarkane from a lower counterpart, a naming convention common across Ireland wherever land was divided between higher and lower ground. Habitation sites as a category can span an enormous range, from the remains of early medieval farmsteads to post-medieval cottages abandoned during or after the nineteenth century. In Kerry, where the landscape carries evidence of continuous human settlement across several thousand years, a classified habitation site might represent almost any period, and almost any social circumstance, from a prosperous ringfort-associated dwelling to a cluster of lazy beds beside a famine-era ruin.