Exposed by erosion, a shell midden, essentially a prehistoric rubbish deposit composed of accumulated food waste, sits just a quarter of a metre below present ground level, thin but legible, measuring 3.8 metres long and no more than 15 centimetres at its thickest point.

What survives is a compact record of diet and habit. The deposit is made up predominantly of mussel shells, with cockles and periwinkles also present, along with small quantities of charcoal suggesting the residue of fires nearby or perhaps used in the preparation of the shellfish themselves. The midden lies within a light-coloured, intermittently stony band of sand, and sits on the same eroded face as another archaeological feature roughly 14 metres to its east. Together they suggest that this stretch of coastline was visited, used, and returned to, with enough regularity to leave a material trace. The Iveragh Peninsula has a long history of coastal settlement and seasonal resource use, and deposits like this one, modest in scale but precise in their contents, offer some of the clearest direct evidence of what people actually ate and where they gathered to eat it. The charcoal element, however slight, implies something more than a brief passing visit; a fire implies staying long enough to need one.