The rows extend about four metres, set roughly seventy centimetres apart and closed off at the northern end by a single upright slab. What survives may be the skeletal remains of a souterrain, an underground or semi-underground passage built from stone, typically used in early medieval Ireland for storage or refuge. Nearby, there are vague traces of what might once have been a hut foundation, though little of that survives with any clarity either.

The archaeologist R. A. S. Macalister recorded the site in 1899 and offered a fuller picture of what it once looked like. He noted that the souterrain terminated at its northern end just outside a circular lios, an enclosed ringfort-type feature, measuring four and a half metres in diameter. The relationship between a souterrain and a lios is not unusual; souterrains were frequently associated with ringforts, often running beneath or just outside their banks to provide concealed access or storage connected to the domestic enclosure. By the time of the Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey published by J. Cuppage in 1986, no trace of that circular feature remained. The lios had vanished entirely, leaving the stone rows as the only physical suggestion of what had once been a more complete early settlement complex.