A univallate rath is a single-banked enclosure, the most common form of early medieval farmstead in Ireland, and here the grouping of four together hints at a community of some density in what is now a largely unremarked corner of the Dingle Peninsula. What makes this particular site quietly arresting is not what survives but what has been taken away: directly inside the south-westerly entrance of one rath, the stones of one or more huts have been systematically robbed out, leaving behind an irregular quarried hollow roughly ten metres long and five metres wide, an absence that speaks to centuries of pragmatic recycling.

Some fifty to sixty metres to the north-east, the picture is less bleak. There, the grass-grown remains of two huts still hold their shape in the ground. The eastern hut is roughly circular, with an internal diameter of about 3.6 metres and an entrance gap of 1.3 metres facing north-east, a modest but legible structure. Attached to its western side is a second, less well-defined hut or annex, the relationship between the two suggesting a small domestic arrangement rather than anything ceremonial or defensive. The details were first set down by J. Cuppage in the 1986 Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey, a foundational piece of fieldwork for the Corca Dhuibhne region that documented sites across this densely layered landscape.