Whether it was ever a church site, a secular enclosure, or something else entirely remains an open question, and that uncertainty is part of what makes it worth knowing about. Folklore and place name evidence both point towards an ecclesiastical origin, but the ground itself has not yet confirmed the story.

The enclosure's walls are so thoroughly overgrown that it has not been possible to establish how much of the original structure survives beneath the later field walls that are almost certainly mixed in with it. One section, however, offers a more legible clue. In the south-west quadrant, a regularly curving arc of walling survives, some 2.5 metres wide and rising 1.3 metres on the interior face and a notably taller 2.5 metres on the exterior. That consistent curve suggests the enclosure may originally have been circular or oval, a form strongly associated with early ecclesiastical sites in Ireland, where the circular enclosure, sometimes called a cashel when built in stone, was a common way of marking out sacred or monastic ground. An ecclesiastical enclosure of this type would typically have contained a small church, perhaps ancillary cells, and a burial ground, though none of these have been confirmed here. The site was documented by J. Cuppage in the 1986 Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey, a survey covering the Corca Dhuibhne region of the peninsula.