A souterrain is an underground stone-lined passage, typically associated with storage or refuge, and their presence alongside domestic structures is a common feature of early Irish settlement. What makes this particular site quietly interesting is the ambiguity at its heart: what was once recorded as a circular hut foundation turns out, on closer inspection, to be something else entirely.

The site came to wider attention through G. H. Orpen, who noted in 1910 the apparent foundations of a circular hut at the south-western corner of the central platform within the rath. Later survey work, compiled by J. Cuppage in the 1986 Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey of the Dingle Peninsula, revisited that identification. The arc of stone facing still visible at that location now appears to mark the edge of the raised central platform itself, rather than the wall line of a separate hut. It is a small but telling revision, a reminder that early archaeology often involved confident readings of features that later, more careful measurement quietly corrects. The broader enclosure, with its double banks and the remains of domestic structures within, still speaks to the kind of enclosed, family-scale settlement that characterised much of rural Ireland in the early medieval period.