Alongside it, a single flint flake, the kind of worked stone fragment left behind when someone shaped a tool by hand. Together, these two details constituted a midden, the term archaeologists use for an ancient refuse deposit, typically composed of food waste such as shellfish remains, animal bone, and discarded stone or ceramic material. Middens are among the most direct records we have of where people ate, camped, and survived along Ireland's coastline, often thousands of years ago.

The site was recorded on the northern side of Fermoyle Island, where it had been exposed in section within the cliff-face, meaning the eroding cliff had cut through the deposit and revealed it in profile. That exposure also sealed the site's fate. A large section of the cliff subsequently collapsed, and the midden, already vanishingly small, disappeared entirely with it. What had been a faint but legible mark in the landscape became nothing at all. The site was documented by J. Cuppage as part of the Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey of the Dingle Peninsula, published in 1986, with the specific details here attributed to A. McCarthy. The flint flake recovered before the collapse is now the sole physical remnant of whatever activity once took place on this small island off the Kerry coast.