Four huts and a large circular enclosure survive here, embedded in the remains of an extensive field system, suggesting that this was not a temporary shelter or isolated outpost but something more considered, a place where people organised their land and lived within it over time.

One of the huts, roughly rectangular in plan and measuring approximately 4.5 metres by 2.2 metres, survives as rough foundations to the south of the circular enclosure. Structures like this, low stone outlines reclaimed by turf and weather, are easy to overlook as natural undulations in the ground, but they represent the footprint of roofed domestic space. The circular enclosure beside it belongs to a tradition of enclosed settlement common across Kerry and the wider Irish prehistoric and early medieval landscape, where a defined boundary, whether for livestock, household, or status, organised life within. Together with the surrounding field system, the group at Canburrin points to a community that divided and worked this ground with some intention, even if the precise period of use remains unclear from what survives.