What makes this cluster unusual is less any individual feature than the sheer repetition of form: nine structures, all broadly alike, gathered in one place as if following a common blueprint that has since been largely forgotten.

Each enclosure averages around six metres in diameter and shares the same basic construction, a circular raised platform edged by a ring of boulders or stones, or in some cases a bank of peat, with a shallow external fosse, that is, a ditch or depression running around the outer edge. This type of small enclosed platform, sometimes called a Fionnán enclosure after their association in Kerry folklore and local tradition with a particular saint or place-name, remains something of a puzzle to archaeologists. Their modest scale sets them apart from the more familiar ringfort, the farmstead enclosure that dots the Irish countryside in the thousands, and their grouping in such close proximity is itself uncommon. Whether they served a domestic, agricultural, or ritual purpose is not firmly established, and that ambiguity is part of what gives the site its quiet interest.