The site sits within a univallate rath, a type of enclosed farmstead ringed by a single earthen bank and ditch, common across early medieval Ireland but rarely as well-positioned as this one, which commands a wide view down the valley. A circular hut once stood against the outer face of the bank, and inside the enclosure, a souterrain, an underground stone-lined passage used for storage or refuge, lies almost completely infilled. Only a chance collapse or deliberate removal of one roofing slab near its southern end has exposed anything at all.

What that gap reveals is enough to sketch the structure's character. The visible section of drystone-built passage runs roughly north-northeast to south-southwest, measuring somewhere between 3.5 and 4 metres in length and no more than 1.1 metres wide, which would have made it a cramped and deliberate space. The curved southern end wall is a detail typical of souterrain construction across Ireland, designed to reduce stress on the stonework. Whether the northern end terminates in a built wall or simply in collapsed debris is not clear. More intriguingly, a surface depression extending westward from a breach in the western wall may indicate a second passage running in that direction, and a third subsidiary passage has been tentatively identified to the north, its presence suggested by the faint line of roofing slabs just below the surface. The archaeologist J. Cuppage recorded the site in the 1986 Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey, noting that one opening to the visible passage was then marked by a porthole slab, a large flat stone with a hole cut through it to allow access while restricting movement, a feature associated with defence or controlled entry.

The interior of the rath was densely overgrown when Cuppage and colleagues visited, and remains so. The souterrain itself is described as now inaccessible, the passage infilled to within twenty centimetres of its own roof. What survives above ground is essentially a set of clues: depressions, a bare track, the ghost of a more elaborate underground network that has not been excavated and may never be.