Known locally by the Irish name Garraí na dTuamaí, the place was levelled around five years before it was surveyed, with the debris carted off to fill a small north-south glen that had run directly to its east. What the levelling left behind is a roughly circular patch of ground, around 13 metres east to west and 17 metres north to south, that rises only very slightly above the surrounding field. The most telling detail is visible from a distance: the grass around the perimeter is a different colour from that growing inside the circle, a subtle but persistent trace that something once stood here and altered the ground beneath.

The site was described by local people, before the levelling, as a low stony mound about a metre high. That description places it somewhere in the ambiguous territory between monument types. A ringfort, the most common prehistoric and early medieval field monument in Ireland, typically consists of a raised circular enclosure defined by an earthen bank and ditch, used as a farmstead or place of habitation. A mound, by contrast, might be a burial cairn, a ceremonial feature, or something else entirely. The 1986 Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey recorded the site and noted that its classification remains uncertain, a conclusion that the levelling made permanent. Whatever this was, the act of clearance erased the physical evidence that might eventually have answered the question.