Known as Cathair na Maoilinne, the site belongs to a class of enclosure associated with early medieval or earlier habitation on the Dingle Peninsula, and what makes it quietly arresting is the scale of the structures it once contained. Thirteen tiny chambers, the largest no more than 2.66 metres across and the smallest barely 1.29 metres in diameter, were packed inside an oval stone-walled enclosure measuring roughly 62 by 43 metres. These are clocháns, the dry-stone corbelled cells characteristic of early Irish ecclesiastical and monastic life, built without mortar by overlapping successive courses of stone until they meet at a roof. That so many could fit within a single enclosure, several in conjoined pairs, gives some sense of the density and intentionality of the original arrangement.

The site was recorded in detail by R.A.S. Macalister in 1899, when the oval enclosure wall was still legible and all thirteen chambers could be identified, along with a rock shelter and a possible further clochán lying about fourteen metres to the south. What survives today tells a much reduced story. The enclosure boundary has softened to an ill-defined area of roughly forty metres across, its southern edge marked by a faint bank of earth and stone, its northern edge by the low scarp. The three stone mounds in the north-west quadrant are the only surface traces of the chambers. To the south, the rock shelter remains, a space of four by two metres internally, partly bounded by a ruined wall and partly by natural outcropping rock, with a short stretch of walling nearby that may belong to one of the former clocháns. The 1986 Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey by J. Cuppage catalogued the site, providing the baseline against which the current, much-diminished state of preservation can be measured.