At Teernahila in County Kerry, there is nothing left to see. The ground has been cleared, the field boundaries that once crossed this area have been removed, and whatever circular enclosure existed here has left no surface trace whatsoever. It endures only as a mark on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey map, described even then as ill-defined.

Circular enclosures of this kind are among the most common archaeological features in the Irish landscape. They could represent the remains of a ringfort, a type of enclosed farmstead typically dating from the early medieval period, or something earlier still. The Iveragh Peninsula, on which Teernahila sits, is exceptionally well documented archaeologically, having been the subject of a systematic survey published by A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan through Cork University Press in 1996. That survey catalogued hundreds of sites across south Kerry, ranging from the well-preserved to the barely perceptible. This one falls firmly into the latter category. By the time the surveyors reached it, agricultural clearance had already done its work, leaving only the cartographic ghost behind.