Roughly 16 metres from north to south, 10.5 metres east to west, and barely half a metre in height, it sits low against the hillside, its original shape dissolved into an irregular scatter of overgrown rubble. What makes it quietly puzzling is the uncertainty surrounding it: archaeologists have not been able to determine with confidence what it once was.

The leading possibility is that it represents the collapsed remains of two or three clocháns built side by side. A clochán is a drystone beehive hut, corbelled rather than mortared, a building technique with deep roots in early medieval Ireland and particularly associated with monastic and farming settlements along the Atlantic seaboard. The Dingle Peninsula has some of the finest surviving examples in the country, so the presence of further, less legible remains in the same landscape is not surprising. What is harder to read is the exact form here. The conjoining of multiple clocháns into a single complex was not unusual, but where the walls of one end and another begin is, at this site, no longer clear. The description comes from J. Cuppage's 1986 archaeological survey of the Corca Dhuibhne region, a detailed and still-useful inventory of the peninsula's ancient remains, and the ambiguity recorded there has not been resolved since.