The one known as Lisnaparkakeela, or Lios na Páirce Caoile in Irish, has done the opposite. What remains is a flat-topped platform, barely a metre high at its greatest, measuring roughly 19.7 metres by 19 metres. It is, in essence, a rath that has given up on being a rath, subsiding quietly into the landscape until only its outline and a faint trace of a fosse, the defensive ditch that would once have run outside its bank, preserve any memory of its original form. The fosse is detectable only along the southern sector, and even there it amounts to little more than a suggestion in the ground.

What makes the setting genuinely unusual is the location. The platform sits on a level spit of land that pushes out into the tidal estuary of the Trabeg inlet, positioned between the mouths of the Garfinny and Owenalondrig rivers on the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry. This is not the commanding hilltop position often associated with early Irish defended enclosures; it is low-lying, almost amphibious, pressed against a field fence running northwest to southeast. The site was recorded and described by J. Cuppage in the 1986 Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey of the Dingle Peninsula, which remains one of the more thorough regional inventories of its kind. Whether whoever built Lisnaparkakeela was drawn by access to the estuary, by fishing, by coastal trade routes, or simply by the availability of a flat and defensible tongue of ground, is not something the earthwork itself can now say.