The example at Curraheen in County Kerry is one such site: recorded, mapped, and quietly present in the landscape, but with little published detail to frame what a visitor is actually looking at.

A rath, as this type of monument is also known, is a roughly circular enclosure defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches, typically dating to the early medieval period, broadly between the fifth and twelfth centuries. They functioned primarily as farmsteads, the bank and ditch offering a degree of protection for a family and their livestock rather than serving any serious military purpose. Kerry is particularly dense with such sites, the result of both a landscape that preserved earthworks well and a pattern of dispersed rural settlement that the rath form suited. The specific history of this example at Curraheen, including its dimensions, condition, and any associated finds or features, is not presently available in the published record.