That is very nearly all that can be said about it with confidence. It has been recorded, assigned a monument number, and placed on the official map of Irish archaeological sites, yet the details that would explain what it is, when it was built, and by whom remain unpublished. It sits on the landscape as a kind of question mark, present but not yet accounted for.

Earthworks in Kerry take many forms. They can be the eroded banks of a ringfort, the low platform of a long-abandoned farmstead, the boundary ditches of a medieval field system, or the barely legible traces of a prehistoric enclosure. Without the supporting record, Farranamranagh's example could belong to almost any of these categories, and to almost any period from the Bronze Age onward. The townland name itself, derived from the Irish, suggests a place with enough identity to have accumulated a name over centuries, but that is as far as inference responsibly carries us.