Drystone construction, which uses no mortar, relies entirely on the careful placement of stone against stone, and on the west Kerry uplands there is no shortage of raw material. What makes this particular group of remains quietly compelling is not any single feature but the combination: a landscape that was once organised, farmed, and inhabited, now reduced to tumbled walls and barely legible boundaries.

The southernmost element of the group is a circular structure, ruined to the point where its original function is difficult to read with certainty. It measures six metres in external diameter and survives to a height of around 1.25 metres at its tallest point. Circular enclosures of this kind on the Dingle Peninsula are sometimes interpreted as dwelling places, sometimes as livestock enclosures, and sometimes as features within a broader settlement. The site was documented by J. Cuppage in the 1986 Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey, a systematic examination of the antiquities of the peninsula that remains a key reference for the area. The Irish name Gleann Seanchoirp, meaning roughly the glen of the old body, adds a layer of quiet unease to an already atmospheric location, though the origin of the name is not recorded in the available sources.