This example sits in the townland of Moyarta, on the Kilkee peninsula in west Clare, a stretch of Atlantic-facing land whose name derives from the Irish "Maigh Fhartaigh", meaning the plain of Fartach, a figure lost to history. The ringfort, or rath, would have functioned as a farmstead during the early medieval period, roughly 500 to 1200 AD, its circular earthen bank enclosing a domestic space where a family lived, kept animals, and worked the land.

Raths were not military fortifications in any serious sense. The raised bank and external ditch that define them served more as markers of status and boundaries than as defensive walls. Inside, timber or wattle structures housed people and livestock, and souterrains, which are stone-lined underground passages, were sometimes dug beneath them for storage or refuge. Moyarta as a barony has deep associations with the MacNamara and O'Brien families, who dominated Clare through much of the medieval period, and the ordinary agricultural settlements of the area, of which this ringfort would have been one, formed the working foundation beneath those more visible dynasties. The precise history of this particular site, its dimensions, condition, and any finds associated with it, remains to be fully documented in the public record.