A cashel is a dry-stone enclosure, typically circular, used in early medieval Ireland to enclose a farmstead or small religious community. This one, recorded by a researcher named Curran, occupies a slightly marshy stretch of land, the kind of place that tends to be bypassed rather than examined.

Within the enclosure, Curran identified traces of two hut-sites, the outlines of small stone dwellings that once stood inside the cashel's protective wall. One of those hut-sites is particularly unusual: it contains the entrance to a souterrain, an underground stone-lined passage or chamber system used in early medieval Ireland for storage, refuge, or both. Curran was informed that this particular souterrain consisted of several chambers, though it is unclear whether he entered it himself or relied on local knowledge. The detail matters, because multi-chambered souterrains are not uncommon on the Dingle Peninsula, but their presence beneath an already modest and easily missed cashel gives the site a quiet complexity. The published survey of the Corca Dhuibhne region by J. Cuppage, produced in 1986, preserves what is known about it, which is itself not a great deal.