It sits on low-lying pastureland, its interior roughly level with the surrounding ground, which is part of why it so easily escapes notice on foot. The foundations of house-sites and other buildings are visible within the enclosure, the remnants of what was once a functioning early Christian settlement, but nothing about the landscape announces this to a casual observer.

The site came to wider archaeological attention through aerial photographs taken in 1987, which revealed its outline with a clarity that ground-level survey had not managed to capture. Aerial photography has long been one of the more reliable ways of detecting low-relief sites of this kind, where centuries of agricultural use and soil accumulation have reduced walls and enclosures to slight undulations or crop-mark patterns invisible from the ground. The site was recorded and described by C. Toal in the North Kerry Archaeological Survey, published in 1995, which remains a key reference for the early medieval landscape of this part of the county. Early ecclesiastical enclosures of this type, sometimes associated with monastic communities or with the establishment of early church territories, are found throughout Ireland, though many, like this one, survive only as foundations and earthworks rather than standing structures.