The example at Gortagullane sits on the edge of a steep west-facing slope in County Kerry, its roughly subrectangular outline measuring around 37 metres north to south and 41 metres east to west. What makes this one worth pausing over is the way it blurs the boundary between deliberate construction and opportunistic use of the natural terrain. Two large depressions in the ground on the eastern side were incorporated into the design, and the eastern wall, now largely collapsed, was laid directly into one of those hollows.

The enclosing wall varies considerably depending on where you measure it. Along the southern arc it stands to around two metres in height externally; along the north it reaches nearly the same. The construction itself follows a logic common to early medieval Irish building: larger stones and boulders form the lower courses, while the upper sections are packed with smaller material that appears to have come from clearing the surrounding fields rather than from any quarried source. A five-metre-wide entrance opens to the east. Inside, a partially collapsed internal wall runs roughly thirteen metres southward from the northern enclosure wall, and each end of that internal wall connects to a separate hut site, suggesting the interior was once divided into distinct domestic or functional spaces. The ferns and deciduous trees that now fill the interior make the full extent of those arrangements difficult to read from ground level, but the basic organisation of the place, an enclosed settlement with at least two associated structures, is still legible in the stonework.