What makes this site unusual is not any single dramatic feature but the layering of structures that points to sustained, purposeful occupation across an uncertain span of time. The remains belong to an Early Christian church complex, a category of site that pepper the Irish landscape but rarely receive much attention outside specialist circles. Early Christian enclosures of this kind typically combined a religious focus with the practical organisation of a small monastic or ecclesiastical community, their boundaries marked by banks or ditches that separated sacred space from the surrounding land.

Within a roughly circular terraced enclosure, the ruined foundations of a rectangular structure measure 7.2 metres north to south and 3 metres east to west, sitting on a levelled platform to the western side. Immediately to the north of this lies a stone and earth mound, approximately 5 metres by 3 metres and rising to about 1.2 metres; its origin remains unaccounted for, which gives it a quality of quiet stubbornness in the record. At the southern edge of the enclosure, abutting the enclosure bank itself, is a circular foundation roughly 3.9 metres in diameter, its southern arc formed by the bank and its northern edge defined by a low stony bank no more than 30 centimetres high. This circular form is consistent with the small dry-stone huts associated with early ecclesiastical settlements along the western seaboard, though the site carries its ambiguities intact. The site was documented by J. Cuppage in the 1986 archaeological survey of the Corca Dhuibhne region, a landmark survey of the Dingle Peninsula that brought many such marginal and overlooked monuments into the formal record.