The two structures, one measuring around four metres in diameter and the other around six, have at some point been pressed into service as sheep pens, a practical second life that is common enough on the Atlantic fringe, where any ready-made stone shelter tends to get used and reused across generations. The enclosure itself is described as being in fair condition, which, for a site of this kind, is a quiet achievement.

What gives the place a more intriguing dimension is a possible identification with a location mentioned in the Ordnance Survey letters of the nineteenth century. Those letters, a remarkable body of correspondence in which local scholars and antiquaries gathered information for the first large-scale mapping of Ireland, refer to a spot on the north side of the island known as Caibidil na mbrathar, meaning roughly "the chapter of the brothers." The phrase carries an ecclesiastical flavour, suggesting some association with a religious community, perhaps a small monastic settlement or a place of gathering for members of a fraternal or clerical order. Whether the hut enclosure on the ground and the named spot in the documentary record are one and the same remains unconfirmed, but the alignment, north side of the island, a small enclosed settlement, is at least suggestive. The connection was noted by Paul Gosling in the Archaeological Inventory of County Galway, published in 1993, drawing on the O'Flanagan edition of the OS letters from 1927.