What can be said with reasonable confidence is that people were still performing a religious circuit here within living memory, a turas, which is a traditional penitential pilgrimage route, that bore the name Turas Fhlainn and included a visit to Tobar Fhlainn, a holy well at the base of the sea-cliffs about 500 metres to the north. That living thread of devotion, combined with a local tradition of a church on the site, points toward an ecclesiastical origin for the place, even if the physical evidence is too fragmentary to confirm it outright.

The remains consist of three or four clochauns, which are small dry-stone corbelled huts of a type found at early monastic and hermitage sites across the west of Ireland, along with three piles of stones that may once have served as penitential stations along the turas route. The best-preserved of the clochauns is circular, measuring 3.7 metres in diameter internally, with walls 1.8 metres wide and equally tall, and a gap of 1.4 metres at the south that marks the entrance. A small recess survives in the interior wall. The westernmost structure is more ambiguous, showing two phases of construction: an earlier curved north-west wall of neat corbelled work still standing to 1.4 metres, and later vertical walls that are rougher and barely visible above ground level. A small drystone niche of unknown function sits in the rubble to its south-east, just 0.65 metres wide and 0.4 metres deep. Further complicating the picture, a section of unusually large stonework to the east and north-east of the main clochaun may represent an enclosure wall rather than a hut, though no continuous line of such a wall survives to confirm it. The survey work on which this account draws was carried out by J. Cuppage for the Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey, published in 1986.