That is, in a quiet way, the point. A circular enclosure once stood here, its bank of earth and stone substantial enough to be mapped on the second edition of the Ordnance Survey, yet today only a small, badly disturbed fragment of the south-eastern portion survives. The rest has gone, absorbed back into the landscape or cleared away at some point between the surveyor's pencil and the present.

Circular enclosures of this kind are common features of the Irish archaeological record, typically interpreted as the remains of ringforts, the enclosed farmsteads that were the standard unit of rural settlement throughout the early medieval period. Whether this particular example dates to that era or represents something earlier or later is difficult to say. What the 1986 Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey by J. Cuppage recorded was already a ruin, a site identified more by its map presence than by anything a visitor could easily read in the ground. Its position on the coastal plain near Derrymore Island places it in a landscape that was presumably farmed and inhabited for centuries, the spit offering some natural shelter from the Atlantic conditions that define this part of County Kerry.