It is part of Cathair na Máirtíneach, a roughly circular cashel, which is the Irish term for a stone-walled enclosure, typically early medieval in date, built to enclose a farmstead or small settlement. Within its walls, several structures survive in varying states of modification, and among them is a corbelled drystone clochan, the beehive-shaped hut form found across the Dingle Peninsula, constructed without mortar by carefully overlapping courses of stone until they meet at a central point overhead.

This particular clochan measures 5.7 metres in diameter internally, with its walls still standing to a maximum height of 1.6 metres. The entrance passage on the south-east side runs for 2.45 metres and is 0.8 metres wide, though the walls flanking it show signs of later intervention, including a dry stone buttress added to the exterior of the southern wall, standing roughly 0.9 metres high. Inside, a small secondary enclosure measuring approximately 2.25 by 3.2 metres was created in the south-western portion of the interior by building a curved length of additional walling, a detail that points to ongoing use and adaptation long after the original construction. The structure itself opens off the north-west side of an adjoining structure, suggesting these buildings functioned together as part of a larger complex rather than as isolated shelters. The site was recorded and described by J. Cuppage in the 1986 Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey, a foundational work for understanding the extraordinarily dense concentration of early remains across Corca Dhuibhne.