The site is tentatively identified as a clochaun, the Irish term for a dry-stone corbelled hut, typically beehive-shaped, built without mortar by laying stones in overlapping rings until they met at the top. These structures are scattered across the Dingle Peninsula in various states of preservation, but what makes this particular site quietly interesting is precisely how little remains, and how much inference is required to read it at all.

The identification was first proposed by R. A. S. Macalister in 1899, who noted the cairn and the two jamb stones, the upright stones that would have framed a doorway, as indicators of a collapsed or robbed-out structure. The tentative language matters here. A cairn alone could represent many things, and without the jamb stones it might pass unremarked entirely. The site sits within a landscape, the Corca Dhuibhne region of the Dingle Peninsula, that is unusually dense with early medieval remains, from souterrains and promontory forts to standing stones and ogham inscriptions. In that context, a ruined clochaun is not surprising; what is notable is how thoroughly this one has dissolved back into the ground.