The fold itself is unremarkable enough at first glance, but its location is thought to preserve something considerably older beneath and around it, the footprint of an earlier circular clochaun, a type of dry-stone beehive hut associated with early medieval settlement in the west of Ireland.

The suggestion that the sheep-fold overlies an earlier circular structure comes from the first edition Ordnance Survey map and was catalogued as Curran no. 14. The site was included in the Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey published in 1986 by J. Cuppage, a detailed inventory of the Dingle Peninsula that brought many such low-profile sites to wider attention. The logic of reuse is familiar along this coastline: a pre-existing stone enclosure, once a human dwelling or ancillary farm building, gradually absorbed into later agricultural use, its circular walls squared off or cannibalised for new construction. The result is a landscape that layers centuries of habitation in ways that only close reading of early maps and fieldwork can begin to untangle.