On each occasion, the collapse exposed part of a souterrain, an underground structure of the kind typically associated with early medieval settlement in Ireland, where such passages and chambers were cut into the earth or built from stone, often serving as places of refuge, storage, or cool preservation of food. What makes this particular site quietly striking is not what has been uncovered, but what remains hidden: four earth-cut chambers and a construction shaft, still down there, still largely unexamined.

The details come from local knowledge passed on by a Mr P. Danaher, who reported the two separate ground collapses. Those collapses are, in a sense, the only reason the site is known at all. The souterrain was not excavated or formally investigated; it announced itself by accident. The construction shaft is a notable detail, as such shafts are thought to have been dug to allow builders to excavate the chambers from above before being sealed over once the work was done. Their presence in a souterrain can indicate something about the scale and planning of the original structure. Beyond that, the record is thin. No date of construction is known, and no associated settlement has been documented here.

The site is currently inaccessible due to flooding, which means the chambers remain unentered and, for now, unrecorded in any detail. It sits in that particular category of Irish archaeological sites that are known to exist, roughly located, and yet essentially beyond reach, waiting on circumstances to change.