What looks at first like a burial ground turns out to contain internal structures that complicate that reading entirely, leaving the site balanced somewhere between the domestic, the funerary, and the sacred.

The enclosure holds a large oval depression measuring 9.3 metres east to west and 4 metres north to south, sunk about half a metre into the ground. Along the western part of its bank, possible traces of a hut foundation survive, though they are difficult to read clearly because several stony mounds nearby likely mark graves. That combination, a potential dwelling pressed up against probable burials within a single enclosure, is what makes the site archaeologically awkward in the most interesting sense. Archaeologist J. Cuppage, writing in the 1986 Dingle Peninsula survey published by Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne, noted that the internal structures suggest this was something more than a simple burial ground. The site may have originated as a rath, which is a ringfort typically used as an enclosed farmstead in early medieval Ireland, or alternatively as an early ecclesiastical settlement, a small monastic or devotional enclosure of the kind that appears across Kerry in some number. Neither interpretation has been confirmed. Adding a further layer to the puzzle, a cross-slab known as the Ardamore cross-slab was discovered approximately 475 metres to the south-east, a find that nudges the ecclesiastical reading without quite settling the question.