What makes the place unusual is the layering of possible use suggested by its remains: an oval enclosure, the kind of bounded space that might have enclosed a small settlement or served a ritual purpose, together with what appear to be the traces of hut sites and, within the same boundary, possible graves. The combination is ambiguous in the way that many early Irish field monuments are, belonging to a category of site that resists tidy classification.

The site is known locally by the Irish name Ulaidh an Draghbháil, also recorded as Ulligadrevil, and it was documented as part of the Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey of the Dingle Peninsula, published by J. Cuppage in 1986. That survey was a systematic effort to record the extraordinary density of early monuments across this part of west Kerry, a landscape that has preserved features from the prehistoric and early medieval periods in unusual numbers, partly because of its relative remoteness and the durability of the stone-built tradition here. The ovate enclosure at Na Cluainte, with its internal traces of occupation and burial, fits into a broader pattern of small enclosed settlements found across the peninsula, though the presence of both habitation remains and possible graves within a single enclosure gives it a particular interest. To the west of the enclosure, further mounds and banks extend the site's footprint, some of which may represent additional hut platforms, though their precise nature has not been firmly established.