This example near Kilgarvan in County Kerry is a univallate rath, meaning it has a single enclosing bank rather than the two or three concentric rings that mark more elaborate examples. What survives here is a circular earthen bank roughly five metres wide, rising about a metre above the interior and a little more above the outer fosse, the shallow trench dug to provide material for the bank itself. The fosse is modest, around one and a half metres wide and less than half a metre deep, which suggests the site was never heavily fortified. The interior, about thirty metres across, slopes gently southward and is now heavily overgrown.

Raths of this kind were typically built and occupied during the early medieval period in Ireland, broadly between the fifth and twelfth centuries, and served as enclosed farmsteads for farming families of middling social rank. The earthen bank was less a military defence than a marker of territory and status, a way of defining a household's space against livestock, neighbours, and the wider world. A fieldbank runs immediately to the north of this example, hinting at the agricultural landscape that once surrounded it, fields and boundaries that may have been laid out in the same period or even earlier. The site lies south-west of another recorded monument in the same area, suggesting a wider pattern of early settlement across this part of Kerry that has yet to be fully unpicked.