What survives at An Eaglais on the Dingle Peninsula is a hut foundation, its walls long since reduced to a low bank of stone and earth, with upright slabs still marking the inner face and the line of the entrance. Yet it was officially recorded as a stone circle, a classification that would place it in an entirely different category of ancient monument, the kind associated with ritual or ceremony rather than everyday shelter and occupation. The two things look different enough on the ground, and the misidentification says something about how easily the remnants of ordinary life get rewritten as something more dramatic.

The structure itself is modest in scale, measuring roughly 3.9 by 5.5 metres across, and standing only about 0.6 metres high where the bank still holds. Despite its small footprint, the upright slabs defining the entrance give a sense of deliberate construction rather than mere collapse. The site sits within the Corca Dhuibhne landscape of the Dingle Peninsula, a stretch of west Kerry with one of the densest concentrations of early archaeological remains in Ireland, where early medieval and prehistoric features are often found within close reach of one another. The correction of its classification appears in J. Cuppage's 1986 archaeological survey of the peninsula, which reassigned it from stone circle to hut site.