One has since been levelled entirely. The other survives as something so faint it could easily be mistaken for a natural rise in the ground, a barely perceptible earthen bank enclosing a level interior roughly 12.5 metres by 13 metres. Locally, people still call it simply "the ring".

These features are lisses, the Irish word giving us the more familiar "lis" or "lios", a type of earthwork enclosure associated in Ireland with early medieval settlement and sometimes with boundary marking or ritual use. They were recorded in 1927 by Ua Riain, who noted both examples in Parkalour at a time when the second was presumably still visible. By the time A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan compiled their archaeological survey of the Iveragh Peninsula, published by Cork University Press in 1996, the eastern liss had been levelled, and only the western one remained, its bank averaging 2.5 metres in width. That such a site was never captured on OS mapping speaks to how easily these low, unassuming earthworks slipped past the official record, surviving instead in local memory and in the names people gave to fields.