What looks at first like ordinary field debris, tumbled stones and collapsed walls, resolves, on closer inspection, into the remnants of at least one oval-shaped hut of rough construction, its interior choked with stone collapse, its northern entrance still faintly legible at around 0.9 metres wide. Beside it to the south sits a roughly circular mound of fallen stone, with slabs protruding at its centre and along its southern edge, possibly the remains of a second collapsed structure. Old field walls have come down across the same ground, and a dense scatter of loose stone fills the quadrant, making it difficult to read where one feature ends and another begins.

The site has accumulated a modest archive of conflicting interpretations. A man named O'Malley recorded what he called a graves site in this general area for the Office of Public Works in 1937, though he placed it one field to the north, an error that muddied the record for some time. Earlier still, a sketch attributed to Lynch in 1902 depicted a square hut described as being near Coolaconan, and it is possible this is the same location seen from a different angle and with a different set of assumptions. Whether the stone mound represents a burial feature, a second hut, or simply the accumulated collapse of a long-abandoned settlement is not settled. What the ground preserves is the outline of a small, roughbuilt habitation landscape on the Iveragh Peninsula, the long arm of Kerry that reaches into the Atlantic, an area with an unusually dense archaeological record spanning prehistoric through early medieval periods.