At Beal in County Kerry, a low earthen enclosure occupies a stretch of sloping pastureland, and just to its north lies another rath, the two sites sharing the same quiet hillside in a pairing that hints at a more complex pattern of early medieval settlement than the fields around them might suggest.

A rath, in the broadest sense, is a roughly circular enclosure defined by an earthen bank and ditch, most commonly associated with the farmsteads of early medieval Ireland, broadly the period from around the fifth to the twelfth century. The example at Beal is modest but legible. Its bank encloses a sub-circular area measuring approximately 27 metres north to south and 26 metres east to west, making it a fairly typical domestic scale for such a site. The bank itself stands about one metre above the surrounding ground on its outer face and half a metre on the inner, spreading to roughly seven metres at its base, which gives it the wide, low profile characteristic of an earthwork that has been slowly softening into the landscape over many centuries. C. Toal's North Kerry Archaeological Survey, published in 1995, recorded the site and noted its relationship to the neighbouring rath to the north, a relationship that remains suggestive without being fully explained by the surviving evidence.