What the site does contain is a souterrain, an underground passage or chamber typically associated with early medieval settlement, often used for storage or as a place of refuge. The assumption, common enough in the cataloguing of Irish monuments, seems to have been that a souterrain implies a ringfort nearby, since the two so frequently occur together. Here, that assumption appears to have been entered into the record without supporting evidence on the ground.

The discrepancy was flagged by researcher Caoimhe Toal, whose 1995 survey of Kerry monuments noted the souterrain at this location without any corresponding reference to a surrounding rath. A rath is the earthen bank and ditch enclosure that defines a ringfort, and its absence, or at least the absence of any clear evidence for it, leaves the site in an ambiguous state: officially classified as a ringfort, but without the structure that would justify that classification. It is the kind of quiet contradiction that surfaces occasionally in the archaeology of Ireland, where centuries of agricultural activity, erosion, and imprecise early record-keeping can blur the line between what was once there and what was simply assumed.