The stones have not been moved so much as swallowed; the fence simply grew around them over generations, incorporating the ancient structure into the everyday geography of land division. What survives is enough to confirm the monument's prehistoric origins, but not enough to say precisely what kind of tomb it once was. Megalithic tombs, which were built across Ireland during the Neolithic and early Bronze Age, come in several distinct forms including portal tombs, wedge tombs, and court tombs, each with its own architectural logic. Here, the remains are too fragmentary to assign the site to any category.

Two roofstones remain partly embedded in the fence, the western one still resting on a single surviving sidestone. Other stones are visible in the southern face of the wall, though whether they were always part of the tomb structure or simply accumulated there over time is unclear. Locally, the site carries the Irish name Leac na mBuachaillí mBána, which might be loosely translated as the flagstone of the fair-haired boys, a name that suggests a long presence in local memory even as the physical monument lost its legibility. The site was documented by J. Cuppage in the 1986 Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey, a systematic study of the antiquities of Corca Dhuibhne, the westernmost reaches of Kerry.