It stands just a quarter of a metre high, and yet it outlines, with some precision, what was once a small rectangular enclosure measuring roughly 4.9 metres north to south and 1.85 metres east to west. That is a space not much larger than a modest hallway, almost certainly the remains of an early Christian hut, the kind of simple cell in which a monk or hermit might have lived, prayed, and slept.

The site sits within or near the early Christian settlement known as Calluragh burial ground, or An Raingiléis, a complex that has been designated a National Monument. Early Christian settlements of this type were common along the Atlantic coast of Ireland, where communities of monks established themselves on exposed, often dramatic terrain during the early medieval period. The Dingle Peninsula was particularly dense with such activity, as documented in J. Cuppage's 1986 archaeological survey of the Corca Dhuibhne region. The hut site itself is a small component within a larger cluster of remains on the hillside, and its modest dimensions are typical of the period; individual cells were rarely built for comfort, and the physical austerity of the structure reflects the ascetic character of the communities that built them.

The slope faces south-east and, according to the survey, commands a wide view in all directions. For anyone who makes the climb, that prospect across the peninsula would have been as present to whoever occupied the cell as it is today, the same hills, the same shifting Atlantic light, though framed now by the knowledge that what looks like a low grassy ridge was once the wall of someone's entire world.