What was recorded on the first edition OS map as two standing stones and a small rectangular building, labelled 'Cloghauns', had shifted position entirely by the second edition, which placed a circular structure of the same name some twenty to thirty metres to the south-east. Whether these represent two different structures, two different surveyors making different judgements, or simple cartographic error is no longer possible to say. The ground today offers no answer: the site lies in rough, wet pastureland, and there is no visible trace of stone.

A clochan is a small dry-stone building, typically beehive-shaped, of the kind associated with early Christian monastic settlement in the west of Ireland, though the term was applied loosely to other stone structures as well. The name 'Cloghauns' as it appears on both map editions is an anglicisation of the Irish plural. J. Cuppage's 1986 archaeological survey of the Dingle Peninsula, Corca Dhuibhne, catalogued the site as entry number 1571, noting even then that the information was confused. What caused the disappearance is unrecorded: field clearance, collapse into the boggy ground, or perhaps the structures were already degraded when the first surveyor came through. The Owenmore valley sits in a landscape dense with early medieval remains, which makes the absence here feel more pointed rather than less.