That combination of details, the exterior position, the sunken relationship to the enclosure, the absence of any visible entrance, gives the structure a quietly anomalous quality among early ecclesiastical remains.

The remains are thought to be those of an oratory, a term for a small early Christian prayer building, typically modest in scale and often associated with monastic or hermetic sites. This one measures just over five metres in its longer dimension and less than three metres across internally, walls built in drystone construction, meaning fitted stone without mortar, surviving in places only one or two courses high and averaging about sixty-five centimetres thick. The western end of the structure merges with the enclosing element of the site itself, suggesting the two features are closely related in origin, though the precise relationship is difficult to read from what survives. The archaeological survey of the Iveragh Peninsula, compiled by A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan and published by Cork University Press in 1996, catalogued the site as part of a broader effort to document the dense concentration of early medieval remains across south Kerry.