What was once a rath, a type of circular earthen enclosure typically built during the early medieval period as a farmstead or place of habitation, has been completely levelled. Nothing breaks the surface.

The site was recorded as a circular enclosure on Ordnance Survey maps from both 1841 to 1842 and 1898, meaning it survived, at least as an earthwork, well into the nineteenth century and beyond. It also appeared on aerial photographs taken by the Geological Survey of Ireland, where the shape of the enclosure showed up clearly from above even when it may have been fading at ground level. C. Toal documented it as part of the North Kerry Archaeological Survey, published in 1995, by which point the levelling had already occurred. The gap between what the maps record and what now exists on the ground is the whole story here.