The Ordnance Survey mapped it in 1840 to 1841 as a sub-rectangular enclosure, a tidy enough description for something that defied easy classification. By 1916, a new fieldbank had cut across the southern side, and whoever updated the map simply wrote "Cave" and left it at that. The site's identity has been shifting, politely, ever since.

What survives today is a semi-circular enclosure holding two possible beehive chambers, the kind of dry-stone corbelled structures found across the Dingle Peninsula and associated with early medieval settlement and monastic activity in Ireland. The southern opening of the enclosure is now filled in. The western chamber is semi-circular and spans roughly eleven metres east to west, with a stone bank still standing around eighty centimetres high. Immediately to the east sits a second chamber, its western wall touching the eastern wall of the first, measuring fifteen metres east to west with a slightly lower bank of sixty centimetres. Whether these chambers originally formed part of a genuine souterrain, an underground stone-lined passage used for storage or refuge, or represent something structurally distinct, remains an open question. The title souterrain appears in the record, but the physical remains read more ambiguously on the ground, which is part of what makes the site worth attention. C. Toal's North Kerry Archaeological Survey, published in 1995, documented the site at some length, and the fieldbank that disrupted the southern perimeter sometime before that 1916 map revision remains visible today, a relatively recent intrusion into a much older arrangement of stone.