It is an easy thing to walk past without a second glance, but its proportions, fourteen metres by seven, are those of an early medieval house, the kind that would have sheltered an Irish family somewhere between the sixth and twelfth centuries. A possible entrance feature on the eastern side gives the faintest suggestion of a threshold, a point where someone once stepped in from the outside world.

The platform sits roughly seven metres north of a related enclosure, the two features likely forming part of the same small settlement. In early medieval Ireland, a house platform of this type was typically formed by cutting into a slope or building up an artificially levelled area, leaving a raised or terraced footprint that outlasts the timber or wattle walls that once stood upon it. The site was documented as part of a comprehensive archaeological survey of South Kerry compiled by A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan, published by Cork University Press in 1996, which brought together records of numerous such features across the peninsula, many of them tucked into farmland and hillside and known only to those who work the ground around them.