Surrounded by loose stones and rough hill grazing, it sits beside a stream that feeds into a small pond, the kind of marginal landscape that was never farmed so much as worked over, season by season, for whatever it could yield.

When the first edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map was drawn in 1846, this feature was recorded in a way that suggested an enclosure, the sort of notation that can send later readers down the wrong path entirely. In fact, it is a turf láthair, a stone base built to stack and dry cut turf before it was carried off the hill. Two láthairs have been identified in the immediate area, which points to this slope having been a productive turf-cutting ground at some point during or before the mid-nineteenth century. The word láthair is Irish for a site or place, and in this context it refers specifically to the low stone platform on which freshly cut sods were arranged to drain and dry. In a part of Kerry where bog and rough grazing still characterise the upland ground, the presence of such structures is not surprising, but the misreading of this one on the historic map gives it a quiet interest of its own, a reminder of how easily the functional can be mistaken for the ceremonial when the original users are long gone.