Most early medieval raths, the circular enclosed farmsteads that dot the Irish countryside by the thousand, occupy slopes or elevated positions where the lie of the land offered some natural advantage. This one does not. It simply sits on the level, defined by a single enclosing bank, a univallate rath, and within it the faint remains of two huts have survived, pressed into the earth long enough that the surrounding field was already being reclaimed by agricultural activity when surveyors last documented the site.

The more legible of the two hut traces is a short arc of walling belonging to a second structure, tucked just inside the enclosing bank at the north-north-east. The main record of the site comes from J. Cuppage's 1986 archaeological survey of the Corca Dhuibhne area, the Dingle Peninsula study published under the title 'Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey' by Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne in Ballyferriter. That survey catalogued the remarkable density of ancient remains across this part of Kerry, where early Christian, prehistoric, and early medieval sites accumulate in a relatively small area. The hut site at Cill Mhuire is one of the quieter entries in that inventory, easily overlooked against the more dramatic monuments nearby.