Where a cluster of early stone structures once stood, visitors today would find only a ruined rock shelter, the remnant of a site that was already in a sorry state when it was first formally noted.

The archaeologist R. A. S. Macalister visited the area in 1899 and recorded three very ruined clochans, the beehive-shaped dry-stone huts associated with early Christian monastic and hermitic life in Ireland, particularly common along the Atlantic seaboard of Kerry. Even by his account, they were far gone. By the time the Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey was compiled in 1986, the clochans had disappeared entirely from the record, leaving only a ruined rock shelter in their place. Whether the stones were robbed out for field walls, or the structures simply collapsed beyond recognition over the intervening decades, the survey does not say. What remains is a site defined more by what it has lost than by what it retains.