Whether that reflects a long-ago use of the enclosure for livestock, a local nickname, or something stranger is now lost, but the name has stuck, and it belongs to a site that sits quietly beside the ruins of a large disused house in Bishopscourt, County Kerry, largely unannounced and easy to overlook.

A rath is an early medieval earthwork enclosure, typically circular, constructed from banked earth and sometimes stone, and used as a defended farmstead or high-status residence. This one is univallate, meaning it has a single enclosing bank rather than the two or three rings that mark out more elaborate examples. That bank is roughly four metres wide and survives to a height of 1.8 metres on its outer face, with the interior sitting noticeably higher than the surrounding ground, a common feature of these structures where centuries of occupation deposit built up within the enclosure. The interior spans about 41 metres north to south, a substantial space. There is one detail worth noting: a shallow depression in the northern sector, roughly seven metres wide and 0.6 metres deep. It could be a remnant of some original feature, but the exterior of the bank was at some point used as a dump, so the disturbance is more likely modern than ancient. To the south of the site, the Rattoo round tower stands as a reminder that this was once a well-populated and significant part of north Kerry, with early Christian and medieval activity leaving its mark across the landscape in multiple forms.