At Deelis in County Kerry, what survives of this early medieval enclosure is little more than a faint circular ripple in the pasture, a bank that reaches just half a metre at its highest point on the southern side. The circular interior, roughly 25 metres across from north to south, is level and featureless, offering no surface indication of whatever domestic life it once enclosed.

A rath, to use the Irish term, was typically a single-family farmstead of the early medieval period, defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches that marked out a household's territory and provided a degree of enclosure for livestock. This particular example sits on gently sloping ground to the south of Knocknadobar mountain, with a clear view out over the Ferta river estuary to the south-west. That sightline is worth pausing over: whoever chose this spot would have looked out over the same estuary, the same wide water, that a visitor sees today. A narrow trackway, of uncertain but presumably later date, cuts across the eastern sector of the site, which has contributed to the erosion of whatever bank once stood there. The survey of the Iveragh Peninsula compiled by A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan, published by Cork University Press in 1996, records the site in this condition, noting its poor preservation but not explaining the precise sequence of events that reduced it to near-invisibility.