The stones in question were ogham stones, carved with an ancient Irish script that runs along the edges of the rock in a series of notches and strokes, and they were removed from a souterrain beneath a rath and repurposed as door-lintels in buildings in the nearby townland of Lougher. It is a fate that befell many such stones across Ireland, where the practical needs of later generations outweighed any sense of the objects as monuments, but it gives this particular site an extra layer of absence.

The rath itself, a type of enclosed farmstead typical of early medieval Ireland, defined by an earthen or stone bank forming a roughly circular boundary, sits in wet pastureland now densely overgrown and planted with coniferous trees in its interior. At its centre, what survives of the hut-site is a curving earth and stone bank, 2.5 metres wide and just 0.25 metres high, thought to represent the northern half of what was once a circular structure. Directly to the south of this bank, a shallow depression in the ground marks where the souterrain once ran, a stone-built underground passage or chamber of the kind often associated with storage or refuge in early Irish settlements. Local information suggests that a considerable quantity of stone was removed from this area at some point in the past, which goes some way towards explaining why so little of the original fabric remains. The site was documented by J. Cuppage in the 1986 Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey, by which point the damage was already well established.