Today there is nothing left to see. The ringfort at Rathmorrel has vanished entirely from the landscape, leaving no bank, no ditch, no hollow in the ground to hint at what once stood there.

A rath, as this type of site is sometimes called, was a roughly circular enclosure defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches, used during the early medieval period in Ireland primarily as a defended farmstead. Thousands survive across the country in varying states of preservation, but this one did not make it. It was still visible enough to be recorded on the Ordnance Survey map of 1842, which means that as late as the mid-nineteenth century some trace of the enclosure remained on the ground. By the time the next reliable mapping was carried out, around 1916, it had gone. Whatever combination of agricultural clearance, land improvement, or simple erosion removed it did so thoroughly; the site retains no surface trace whatsoever today. Its position was immediately south-south-east of a second enclosure recorded nearby, suggesting that the two sites once formed part of a denser pattern of early settlement in this part of Kerry than the present empty fields would suggest.