Scattered across the ground are faint circular depressions, low grass-covered rings, and fragmentary wall lines that could easily be dismissed as natural undulations in the landscape. They are, in fact, the probable remains of clochans, the small dry-stone beehive huts associated with early Christian monastic and ecclesiastical settlement in Ireland, where monks or religious communities would have lived and worked in conditions of considerable austerity.

The site is connected to Cill Comhla, an early ecclesiastical enclosure nearby. Writing in 1976, the archaeologist John Waddell recorded three distinct features among several indistinct foundation lines. One, at the north-east and sitting on the projected line of the enclosure itself, is a circular depression measuring roughly 2 metres by 1.8 metres, with what may be an entrance on its northern side. A second, to the north-west and possibly just outside the enclosure boundary, takes the form of a low penannular ring, meaning a ring that is almost but not quite closed, about 9.5 metres in diameter, with a gap at the south-west. A third, also to the north-west and probably beyond the original enclosure line, is a collapsed circular wall around 5 metres in external diameter, open at the east. Two further sections of grassed-over foundation lines lie in the interior of the enclosure. Whether any of these are definitively clochans remains uncertain; the language of the record is carefully hedged, and the archaeology is genuinely ambiguous.

That ambiguity is, in its way, a fair reflection of how most early medieval religious sites in the west of Ireland actually present themselves on the ground. The neat reconstructions seen elsewhere can give a misleading impression of legibility. Here, the archaeology asks for patience and a willingness to read a slight rise in the turf as a potential wall, a shallow hollow as a possible floor.