They are gone now, consumed by peat cutting, and what remains of them is essentially a pair of faint outlines on an old map. The second edition of the Ordnance Survey captured them, but the ground itself has since been cutaway, and nothing survives to visit.

They were thought to be fionnán enclosures, a term referring to low earthwork enclosures associated with the management of rough grassland or grazing, typically found in marginal upland or boggy ground. Their position in boggy pasture on the slopes of Knocknagullion fits that pattern well. The Iveragh Peninsula, on which this area sits, contains a considerable density of early field monuments, many of them poorly understood and some, like these, now lost entirely. A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan documented them in their 1996 archaeological survey of south Kerry, published by Cork University Press, by which point the enclosures had already been erased by commercial or domestic peat extraction, a fate shared by many low-lying earthworks across the Irish midlands and west.