The enclosure is a cashel, a type of dry-stone ringfort common across early medieval Ireland, built to enclose a farmstead or small settlement and define its boundary against both livestock and the wider world. That so many structures survive within a single cashel here makes this a notably dense little site.

At least one of the huts carries an additional curiosity: a sub-rectangular structure adjoins its eastern side, with what may be an entrance facing east. Sub-rectangular buildings are less common within cashels than the usual circular hut form, and the possible entrance orientation, facing east, gives it a faint suggestion of intentionality, though whether that reflects function, status, or simple practicality is not known. The site also contains a souterrain, a narrow underground stone-lined passage that in early medieval Ireland typically served for storage or, in times of trouble, as a place of concealment. The souterrain here connects this settlement to a wider pattern of such sites across the Dingle Peninsula, where early communities made careful use of both the land's surface and what lay beneath it.