On a south-east-facing slope in Corbally, County Kerry, a possible rath sits beneath pasture grass, its outlines invisible at ground level. A rath is an earthen ringfort, typically a circular bank-and-ditch enclosure that once defined the farmstead of an early medieval family, and this one measures approximately 35 metres in diameter. That it can no longer be read in the landscape makes it, in some ways, more interesting rather than less.

The site was recorded on the 1846 Ordnance Survey six-inch map, which captured it as a circular enclosure with a rectangular building abutting the north-east arc of the ring on the outside, aligned on a north-west to south-east axis. The relationship between the two structures is intriguing. Whether the rectangular building was contemporary with the rath, a later addition pressed up against an already ancient boundary, or something else entirely, is not clear from what survives. What is clear is that by the time anyone was looking closely enough to document it on the ground, the earthworks had already sunk beneath the vegetation.