Something, it seems, lies beneath. That small detail sits quietly alongside the more measurable facts: an oval earthen enclosure roughly eleven metres by fourteen, its outer bank two and a half to three metres wide and about a metre high, surrounding an interior mound that slopes away to the north-west. A ring barrow is a Bronze Age burial monument, typically a low central mound enclosed by a circular or oval bank and ditch, used to inter the dead in a landscape that was already, even then, ancient. This one commands a wide view across north Kerry, particularly from the south-west through to the north-west, the kind of sightline that suggests the location was chosen with care.

The local memory attached to the site is pointed: stories in the area speak of a chieftain buried there. Such traditions are not unusual around barrows in Ireland, where folk memory has a habit of preserving a kernel of meaning long after the written record has gone silent. Whether the hollow sound and the legend point to the same thing is impossible to say without excavation, and the mound at Banemore, as far as the published record goes, has not been opened. The dimensions were recorded by Caroline Toal as part of the North Kerry Archaeological Survey, published in 1995 through Brandon press in association with FÁS, which documented monuments across the region with a methodical, ground-level attention to detail that has made it a lasting reference for the area.