That uncertainty is itself part of the interest. The feature measures roughly eleven metres east to west and is defined along its southern edge by a steep drop of around three metres, giving it a pronounced, shelf-like quality on the slope. Two trackways cutting eastward from the site have disturbed it enough that a firm classification remains elusive, though local knowledge places it in the same category as nearby ring barrows. A ring barrow is a low, roughly circular burial mound, typically of prehistoric origin, surrounded by a ditch or bank, and the Dingle Peninsula has a notable concentration of them.

The site was recorded by J. Cuppage in the 1986 Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey of the Dingle Peninsula, a detailed regional study that catalogued the extraordinary density of ancient remains along this stretch of the Atlantic coast. Cuppage noted its similarity to two other recorded monuments in the immediate area, and while the resemblance was enough to suggest a shared type, the disturbance caused by those trackways leaves the identification provisional. It is an honest, if slightly frustrating, position to be in: the landscape has clearly been shaped by human activity across many periods, and later land use has quietly complicated the earlier archaeology.