Not a grand structure, not a defended tower, but a small sub-rectangular dwelling, roughly four metres by three and a half, with curved corners and walls that have long since softened into the earth. The date is unknown. The people who lived there are unknown. What remains is a slight depression in the ground, a geometry of mounded soil, and the Irish place name that has quietly preserved something of what this land once was: Lisnagree, from Lios na Graí, meaning the ringfort of the stud of horses.

Ringforts, circular enclosures defined by an earthen bank and sometimes a fosse (a surrounding ditch), were the most common type of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, though some were built earlier and occupation in certain cases continued much later. This one is univallate, meaning it has a single enclosing bank rather than two or three. It sits in the north-western corner of a large pastoral field at Cloghanebane in Kerry, and its interior is raised slightly above the level of the surrounding land. Within that raised interior, the house site survives alongside two small unexplained mounds, one measuring roughly 1.8 metres by 1.4 metres just to the north of the dwelling, and another, smaller still, tucked inside the southern sector of the bank. The southern portion of the bank itself has disappeared entirely. The entrance, facing east in the usual fashion, is about three metres wide and was probably once stone-lined. The ringfort's commanding position, with clear sightlines in all directions, would have suited a household keeping animals, watching land, reading the weather.