The first edition of the Ordnance Survey map records a circular univallate enclosure at this spot, a single-banked ringfort of the kind that once dotted the Irish countryside in considerable numbers, but the structure itself has since disappeared entirely from the landscape. It is, in a quiet way, an absence that tells its own story about how much has been lost between the era of early surveying and the present.

What little is known about the site comes from the Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey published by J. Cuppage in 1986, a detailed study of the Dingle Peninsula that catalogued dozens of monuments across this archaeologically dense stretch of Kerry. The enclosure is listed, but the more intriguing detail attached to it is local in origin: a souterrain was reportedly discovered in the vicinity. A souterrain is an underground stone-lined passage or chamber, typically associated with early medieval settlement and used variously for storage, shelter, or refuge. The complication is that the discovery cannot be pinned with certainty to this particular site. It may belong instead to one of two nearby enclosures recorded under separate survey numbers, and the ambiguity has never been resolved. Three sites, one underground passage, and no firm answer as to where it lies.