The fence is incidental, but it serves as an accidental marker: ruins fall on both sides of it, above and below, as though the boundary between past and present refuses to settle in one place.

A researcher named Henry recorded the site, noting a small, ruinous stone fort containing the remains of several hut sites within its walls. A stone fort of this kind, sometimes called a cashel, is a circular or oval enclosure built from dry-laid stone, used in early medieval Ireland for settlement and sometimes for sheltering livestock. To the east of this fort, on the far side of the modern fence, Henry found a separate ruined oval enclosure, possibly a standalone hut site. Its internal dimensions were modest even by the standards of early Irish domestic architecture: roughly 7 feet by 5 feet 6 inches, or about 2.1 metres by 1.7 metres. An entrance gap survived in the northern wall. The full survey of the site, compiled by A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan for their archaeological survey of South Kerry, published by Cork University Press in 1996, drew on Henry's earlier observations to place this cluster within the broader pattern of early settlement across the Iveragh Peninsula, a coastline that preserves an unusually dense concentration of early medieval and prehistoric remains.