The entrance, according to local information passed down over the years, was deliberately closed up at some point, sealing off an underground passage that ran in a north-easterly direction. Whether what lies beneath qualifies as a true souterrain, one of the stone-lined underground chambers and passages built throughout early medieval Ireland, typically for storage or refuge, remains unconfirmed. There are no visible remains, and the ground above is densely covered with overgrowth.

The site sits within what was once a rath, a type of enclosed farmstead common across Ireland from roughly the early medieval period onwards, though this particular example has been levelled, its earthen banks long since flattened by time and land use. The north-easterly direction of the reported passage, if the account is accurate, would place it beneath the southern half of where the rath once stood, a detail that fits broadly with how souterrains were typically positioned within such enclosures. The knowledge of the tunnel survives only through local oral tradition, which is itself a reminder of how much archaeological detail persists not in the ground but in the memory of people who live alongside it.