A human skull turned up in its southern portion at some point this century, which is the kind of discovery that tends to confirm suspicions without quite settling them. What the site actually is remains officially uncertain, and that ambiguity is part of what makes it worth knowing about.

The enclosure is known locally as An Scairt or Cathair na mBráithre, both names carrying strong suggestions of monastic life. Cathair na mBráithre translates roughly as the fort or enclosure of the brothers, and local tradition holds that this was once a monastery. The field immediately to the east is called the monks' graveyard, and nearby features carry the Irish names Páircín na Manach, meaning the little field of the monks, and Srúill Chathair an tSagairt, the stream of the priest's cathair. A cathair, in this context, is a stone-walled enclosure of the kind associated with early Irish ecclesiastical or secular settlement. Taken together, the place names form a quiet but insistent argument for a religious past, even where the archaeology has not yet been able to confirm one. Adding further weight to the ecclesiastical reading is a bullaun stone lying just outside the enclosure to the southeast. Bullauns are stones with one or more bowl-shaped depressions, often found at early Christian sites in Ireland, where they may have served liturgical, medical, or votive purposes. Their presence at a site is not definitive, but it is rarely coincidental.