What survives of a once-complex stone settlement is a cairn, a few legible foundations, and a grass-grown bank or two; the kind of site that rewards patience and a certain tolerance for ambiguity.

When the archaeologist R.A.S. Macalister examined the site in 1899, he recorded a multiple clochan, the Irish term for a dry-stone beehive hut of the kind common across the Dingle Peninsula, with four or five chambers arranged in a rough north-to-south line. By the time the Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey was compiled by J. Cuppage in 1986, that multi-chambered complex had deteriorated significantly. What remained, and what can still be traced, is the foundation of a single circular structure roughly four metres in diameter at the southern end of the cairn, with an entrance facing east and a second opening to the north. That northern entrance connects to a sub-rectangular enclosure, approximately five by three and a half metres, defined by what is now little more than a low, turf-covered wall. Around two metres further north, an arc of banking hints at the former position of a third structure, though its form is no longer recoverable with any certainty.

The site sits quietly on the hillside in the townland of Fán, not far from the tip of the Dingle Peninsula where the concentration of early medieval and prehistoric remains is among the densest in Ireland. The clochans here were almost certainly associated with early Christian or early medieval settlement, a period when this remote Atlantic coastline supported a surprisingly active monastic and farming culture. What makes this particular site notable is less what remains than what Macalister saw and described, a multi-chambered complex that has since largely returned to the mountain.