The site is recorded simply as the low remains of an enclosure, the kind of circular or roughly oval boundary that generations of people across early medieval Ireland built from earth and stone to define a farmstead, a place of ritual, or a defended homestead. But whatever lies here is, for now, inaccessible, buried under a substantial spread of local stone that was brought in and deposited across the field at some point before or around the time the site was first noted.

The site came to light in 2000, when Michael Connolly, County Archaeologist for Kerry County Council, carried out an assessment across a forty square mile area north of Killarney as part of a road route selection process. It was during that survey that he observed the low earthwork and reported it. The difficulty, then as now, is that a considerable quantity of landfill material, loose local stone spread across the surface, obscures whatever archaeology the field might contain. That deposit prevents any proper assessment of what the enclosure actually represents, how old it might be, or what its original function was. The remains are there in the official record, but the ground itself keeps its answer covered.