What survives is not dramatic in the conventional sense, but there is something quietly compelling about a settlement where the outlines of individual rooms can still be read in the landscape, even if the walls are now little more than low stony ridges.

The enclosure is a univallate rath, meaning a roughly circular enclosure defined by a single earthen or stone bank, a form of farmstead common in early medieval Ireland and associated with the dwellings of farming families. At An Fearann, that enclosing bank contains the remnants of the huts within it, one of which abuts the northern side of the bank directly. This third hut, recorded during the Corca Dhuibhne Archaeological Survey published by J. Cuppage in 1986, survives as a depression of no clearly defined shape, ringed by a stony bank averaging half a metre in height and one and a half metres across. The interior of the structure measures roughly four metres by three, enough space for a small dwelling or perhaps an outbuilding used for storage or sheltering animals. The number of huts in the enclosure remains uncertain, the survey offering three or possibly four as the count, which is itself a reminder of how much has been lost to time, collapse, and the slow recycling of stone by later generations.