The site sits beneath a thin covering of peat, which has both preserved and obscured it; at least one stretch of wall actually disappears beneath the bog as it runs southward. What makes this cluster unusual is less any single structure than the ensemble: three huts, the remnants of an old field system, and a spread of features that together suggest a community, however small, working and living here well over a thousand years ago.

The complex covers an area of roughly one hundred metres in radius and contains a mix of building types that is itself interesting. At the northern end, a two-roomed rectangular hut, measuring five metres by four, was built directly against the western face of a large rock outcrop, the outcrop presumably serving as a ready-made wall. About twenty metres to the south is an oval arrangement of slabs, nine metres by five and a half. At the south-eastern end of the complex, a circular hut foundation, defined by upright slabs and measuring just over three metres across, sits beside a low sod-covered mound with erect slabs at its centre, the purpose of which is not recorded. To the west, a further two-roomed rectangular hut survives to its basal course of upright stones. The early medieval date for the cluster, roughly the period between the fifth and twelfth centuries, was proposed by Mitchell in 1989, drawing on the character of the structures and their relationship to the surrounding field system.

The site lies in the Coarha More area of Valentia Island and is positioned close to the townland boundary with Coosatorinth. The peat covering means that much of what survives is low-lying and not immediately legible from a distance; the upright slabs are the clearest markers, and the field boundaries, where they remain visible, help give a sense of the original scale of the settlement.