A rath, for context, is a circular earthen enclosure, common across early medieval Ireland, that typically served as a farmstead or settlement. What makes this particular feature of interest is the slight central depression at its crown, roughly 4.1 metres across, suggesting the outline of a hut that once stood here, its walls long since collapsed and absorbed into the ground.

The site was recorded and described by archaeologists A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan in their 1996 survey of the Iveragh Peninsula, a thorough archaeological account of south Kerry published by Cork University Press. The hut, if that is indeed what it represents, would have been positioned within or immediately beside the enclosing rath, a common arrangement in early Irish settlement patterns where domestic structures clustered inside the protected space of the earthwork. The careful qualification of it as a "possible" hut site reflects the honest uncertainty that comes with features this subtle: the mound and its depression are consistent with a collapsed circular structure, but the evidence stops short of certainty.