At Baile An Teampaill on the Dingle Peninsula, a circular stone enclosure sat beneath the bog, entirely hidden, until the cutting of the overlying peat brought it back into view. What emerged was modest in scale but precise in its construction: a roughly circular structure, six metres across internally, with walls of drystone masonry reaching up to 0.9 metres in height. Drystone construction, meaning walls built without mortar and relying instead on the careful fitting of stones against one another, is common throughout the west of Ireland, but this example has an additional feature worth noting. Low orthostats, that is, upright slabs set on end, form the base of the inner wall face, giving the structure a more deliberate character than a purely utilitarian windbreak or field boundary might suggest.

The function of the enclosure is not certain. It may have been a hut foundation, the base of a small dwelling whose upper walls and roof have long since vanished. The possible entrance, identified on the southern side, is defined by two upright stones set only 0.2 metres apart, which is a narrow gap but consistent with small early structures found elsewhere on the peninsula. The site was documented by J. Cuppage as part of the Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey of the Dingle Peninsula, published in 1986, which catalogued the extraordinary concentration of early remains across this corner of Kerry. That survey gave the structure its formal number and description, working from fieldwork carried out in the area around Ballyferriter. The peat that had covered and, in doing so, preserved the structure was the same material that made it invisible for an unknown period of centuries before its exposure.