A ringfort, or rath, once occupied the bottom of a pastoral field here; a circular earthwork enclosure of the kind built across Ireland during the early medieval period, typically used as a farmstead, defined by one or more raised banks and ditches. At some point it was levelled so thoroughly that no surface trace whatsoever remains. The ground gives nothing away.

What we know comes largely from map evidence and aerial photography. The site appeared on Ordnance Survey mapping from 1841 to 1842 as a circular enclosure, though a later edition recorded it as more oval in plan, suggesting either that the earthwork had already begun to degrade or that the earlier survey was imprecise. The fieldbank running immediately to the south of the site marks the old townland boundary between Ballingowan and Loughanes, a reminder that these landscapes were organised and subdivided long before any living memory. By the time Geological Survey of Ireland aerial photographs were taken in 1974, the fort itself had vanished from the ground entirely, yet the cropmarks or soil differences that show up in aerial imagery preserved a faint outline of what had once been there. C. Toal documented the site in the North Kerry Archaeological Survey, published in 1995, drawing on that photographic evidence to confirm what maps alone could only suggest.

The fate of this rath is not unusual. Thousands of ringforts across Ireland were removed during land clearance, particularly in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as agricultural improvement took precedence over earthworks that interrupted ploughing or grazing. What is slightly melancholy about this one is that even the aerial ghost is now decades old, and the field continues to look, to any passing eye, like nothing more than a quiet corner of Kerry farmland.