A souterrain once lay here, a type of underground stone-built passage or chamber used in early medieval Ireland, likely for storage or refuge, and by the time anyone thought to write it down formally, it had already become a low mound of collapsed stone, roughly circular in plan, more suggestive of a cairn than anything with interior space.

When a record was made in the 1930s, the associated hut structure above ground was described as being in a very collapsed state. Local knowledge, however, preserved something the visible remains could not: a tradition that the souterrain beneath had comprised two passages, with an opening situated around eight metres to the north-west of the main structure. This kind of oral memory, passed between neighbours rather than committed to paper, is often the only thread connecting a levelled site to what it once was. The site had also caught the attention of O'Connell, who in 1939 referenced what he called a chambered cairn at this location, a description that appears to correspond to the same mound. Within about thirty metres to the south-east lay a cross-inscribed boulder, a separate monument that hints at a broader pattern of activity in the landscape, early Christian or earlier, now difficult to read with any confidence.

The site has since been levelled entirely. What O'Sullivan and Sheehan documented in their 1996 archaeological survey of the Iveragh Peninsula was already a ghost of a structure, its underground passages inaccessible, its surface profile reduced to little more than a gentle rise in a Kerry field.