What makes this particular spot quietly extraordinary is not any visible ruin but what emerged from a field nearby in 1927: a triangular bronze hanging bowl, made from a single thin sheet of metal, with three suspension chains attached. The chains have since been lost, but the bowl itself survives, and it carries something rarer still. Two ogham inscriptions, the ancient alphabet used in early medieval Ireland and Britain, run across its surface. The first, on one of the decorative escutcheons, reads BLADNACH CUILEN; the second traces along the upper rim and reads BLADNACH COGRADEDENA. Whether these names were cut into the metal when the bowl was made or added by a later hand is genuinely uncertain. The vessel is probably not earlier than around 650 AD.

The enclosure it was found beside is thought to be trivallate, meaning it comprises three concentric enclosing banks, a form associated with sites of some ecclesiastical importance in early Christian Ireland. The outermost bank, around 200 metres across east to west, can only be partially traced now, running from east to south and curving towards the west. A 30-metre gap between the middle and outer banks may mark what was once the main entrance to the site. The middle bank, roughly 8 metres wide and half a metre high, contains a semi-circular structure on its eastern exterior face, internally about 22 by 17 metres. Within the innermost zone sits a roughly square stone enclosure, around 30 by 31 metres, with walls 2 metres thick. In its north-east corner is a smaller sub-square structure, approximately 8 by 7.5 metres with walls about 1.2 metres thick, interpreted as the probable remains of a church. To the south-west of this lie at least four low mounds, scattered stones, and a shallow depression to the west. The surrounding land is wet and rocky, the whole site sitting north-west of a small stream, and the earthworks blend easily into the damp, uneven pasture around them.