A kerb circle, in archaeological terms, is essentially the surviving outline of what was once a more substantial structure, typically a cairn or burial mound, where the upright or recumbent stones that originally edged the monument are all that remain. What once may have marked a place of burial or ceremony has been reduced, over millennia, to a faint ring in the ground, legible mainly to those who already know to look.

The site is catalogued in the Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry, compiled by Aidan O'Sullivan and John Sheehan and published in 1996, which places it among the prehistoric monuments of south-west Kerry. That part of the county is unusually dense with such remains, ranging from standing stones and boulder burials to wedge tombs, all testimony to a landscape that was actively shaped and marked by Bronze Age communities. A kerb circle of this kind would most likely date to that same broad period, when the construction of cairns and ring monuments was widespread across Ireland. That so little of it now survives above ground is not unusual; centuries of agriculture, grazing, and the slow work of weather have reduced many such sites to their barest structural elements.