That is, in essence, all that can be said with confidence at the moment. The site is listed as a monument, which places it in the company of ring forts, standing stones, and early medieval enclosures across Ireland, but the details that would give it texture, its age, its shape on the ground, whether it belongs to the early medieval period or something older still, remain unavailable for now.

Hut sites in Ireland range considerably in character. Some are the remains of dry-stone shelters associated with transhumance, the seasonal movement of cattle to upland grazing, a practice known in Irish as buailteachas, or booley farming, which left clusters of small stone structures on hillsides across Munster and Connacht. Others are earlier, connected with prehistoric settlement, or with the kind of marginal, temporary occupation that leaves only the faintest trace. Without more detail about Kilquane specifically, it is impossible to say which tradition this site belongs to, or what a visitor would actually see on the ground.