No walls survive above ground, no signpost marks the spot, and the site has never been formally located by archaeologists. What survives instead is a pair of folklore accounts, collected from schoolchildren in Chapeltown in the mid-twentieth century, which together describe not one but two substantial settlements on Fenit Island, one to the west in a place called Cuan Garsons, meaning something like "Harbour Garsons", and one to the east, near the site of an old mill. A small ruined church known locally as the Teampaillín, a diminutive of the Irish word for chapel, was said to sit centrally between the two, which would place it roughly equidistant from both communities.

The eastern settlement is the better documented of the two, owing largely to what a landowner named John Slattery told a local collector. According to Slattery, whose land contained the mill site, the mill had ground corn using trapped sea water: at spring tide, water was held on the low beach, and as the tide ebbed, the escaping flow turned the wheel. This kind of tidal mill, which uses the differential between high and low water rather than a running stream, was used in Ireland from early medieval times onward. Slattery also reported that ploughing frequently turned up house foundations and large deposits of cockle shells across the area, the shells being the accumulated debris of domestic use rather than any industrial process. A spring well some ninety-one metres from the village site, roughly eight feet deep, was identified as the settlement's water source, and an object described as an "old bittling stone" was said to still stand nearby. A bittling stone, or beetling stone, is a flat stone used for beating and smoothing cloth or linen, a commonplace domestic tool that had no reason to be preserved unless it was simply abandoned in place.

More recent aerial imagery adds a quiet layer of corroboration to all of this. Earthworks consistent with a field system and cultivation ridges are visible on satellite images of the south-east side of the island taken between 2011 and 2013, and the pattern aligns broadly with the location described in the folklore accounts. The settlement has not been excavated, and its precise extent remains unknown. What the plough has turned up over the generations has not been systematically recorded, and the cockle shell middens, if any remain, lie somewhere beneath ordinary agricultural land.