It sits on the level interior of the enclosure, rising to roughly 0.8 metres and measuring about eight metres square, and the working interpretation is that it represents the collapsed remains of a hut site. That word "may" carries a lot of weight in archaeology, and it is part of what makes this feature quietly interesting. A rath is a roughly circular earthen enclosure, typically associated with early medieval settlement in Ireland, and it would have been entirely normal for one or more structures to occupy its interior. Here, the mound's position hugging the inner face of the bank is consistent with that pattern, but certainty stops there.

The site was recorded as part of a comprehensive archaeological survey of South Kerry carried out by A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan, published by Cork University Press in 1996. Their work across the Iveragh Peninsula documented hundreds of features across a landscape that remains one of the more archaeologically dense corners of Ireland, shaped by centuries of farming, settlement, and survival in a terrain that was never easy to work. The hut site at Gearha is catalogued in connection with the wider rath complex, and while no excavation appears to have taken place here, the stony mound's dimensions and its relationship to the enclosure bank are what give it its tentative identity.