Ringforts, known in Irish as raths, were the standard farmstead of early medieval Ireland, typically consisting of a raised circular area enclosed by one or more earthen banks and ditches. They were not primarily military installations but domestic spaces, home to a farming family and their livestock, dating in most cases to roughly the period between the sixth and tenth centuries.

Kerry's concentration of ringforts reflects both the density of early medieval settlement in Munster and the relative survival of earthworks in a county where large-scale tillage agriculture, which elsewhere flattened such monuments, was less destructive. The townland name Garraun More derives from the Irish, likely related to a word for a thicket or shrubbery, suggesting a landscape that may once have been scrubby and marginal, the kind of ground that early farmers nevertheless found workable. Beyond its classification as a rath and its location in this Kerry townland, the specific details of this particular enclosure remain largely undocumented in the public record at present.