The spread measures roughly 16 metres north to south and 10.5 metres east to west, rising no more than half a metre from the ground. It does not announce itself as anything in particular, which is part of what makes it quietly compelling.

The site is tentatively identified as the remains of two or three conjoined clochans, the beehive-shaped dry-stone huts built without mortar that are characteristic of early Christian and early medieval settlement along the Atlantic seaboard of Ireland. The corbelled construction technique used in clochans, where each course of stone projects slightly inward until the structure closes at the top, is ancient and was used on the Dingle Peninsula across several centuries. Here, however, the outline has become so indistinct that even that identification is uncertain. J. Cuppage's 1986 archaeological survey of the Corca Dhuibhne region, which remains a foundational reference for the peninsula, recorded the site with careful hedging, noting that it is not clear what the remains actually represent. That ambiguity has not been resolved since.