No local memory survives of who was buried here or when, which places the site in an ambiguous and rather poignant category.

The physical evidence inside the ringfort, a univallate example, meaning enclosed by a single earthen bank or wall, is strongly suggestive of a calluragh, the Irish term for an informal burial ground historically associated with unbaptised infants and others excluded from consecrated ground. Such sites were typically located at liminal places, old earthworks, field boundaries, or forgotten enclosures, and carried a quietness that set them apart from the ordinary landscape of the dead. The mounds and markers here fit that pattern well. Writing in 1939, the scholar known as An Seabhac recorded the presence of a clochaun at this location, a small dry-stone beehive structure of the kind found across the Dingle Peninsula, but subsequent examination found nothing in the interior features that could be identified as one. Instead, what remains looks far more like the modest, unadorned graves and simple stone markers characteristic of calluragh use. The ringfort itself had presumably been long disused as a domestic or defensive enclosure by whatever point burials began within it, its earthen circuit offering a kind of ready-made boundary for a place that needed to be set apart. J. Cuppage's 1986 archaeological survey of the Corca Dhuibhne region documented the site carefully, noting the uncertainty around its precise function while acknowledging the weight of the physical evidence.