The townland of Cloghermore takes its name from the reef itself, and scattered across and around it are the remains of at least four distinct features: a cave, two enclosures, and a cairn, a term for a mound of stones that in Irish contexts can signal anything from a burial to a boundary marker.

The cave at Cloghermore was excavated across two seasons in 1999 and 2000, work carried out under a formal archaeological licence. On the southern face of the reef, to the north-west of the enclosure that contains the cave entrance, a series of curving banks survives. These are modest in scale, averaging around 0.55 metres in height, but their curved alignment and association with a shallow depression nearby suggest they are not simply natural formations. The precise function of these banks remains uncertain; the possibility that they mark the presence of a further archaeological feature has been noted but not resolved. Michael Connolly, whose doctoral research at University College Cork produced a monument catalogue for the Tralee area, brought this grouping together as a coherent complex rather than a set of isolated finds, which is itself a useful corrective to the tendency to treat surface features and subsurface ones as separate problems.

The enclosures on the reef are the kind of low, easy-to-overlook earthworks that reward slow walking rather than a quick glance. The curving banks on the southern side are visible to anyone who knows to look for them, though their meaning remains genuinely open.