A rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, was once visible here: a roughly circular earthen enclosure of the kind built in their thousands across Ireland during the early medieval period, roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries, and used primarily as farmsteads and defended family settlements. This one, however, did not survive into the present. It was levelled in the mid-1970s when the surrounding fields were amalgamated, its banks absorbed into the improved pasture around it.

What makes the site quietly melancholy is the detail of its immediate past. Before it was finally erased, the enclosure had been repurposed as a cattle pen, its ancient earthworks doing much the same practical job they may once have done for an early medieval farming household, containing livestock within a defined boundary. Both editions of the Ordnance Survey maps had recorded it as a circular enclosure, meaning it survived long enough to be cartographically noted, twice over, before disappearing in a decade of agricultural intensification that claimed many such sites across the Irish countryside. A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan documented it in their 1996 archaeological survey of the Iveragh Peninsula, by which point the earthwork itself had already been gone for roughly twenty years.