The souterrain it belonged to is gone, its location on a gentle north-facing slope about 75 metres west of the village now showing no trace whatsoever above ground. A souterrain is an underground stone-built passage or chamber, typically associated with early medieval settlement in Ireland, used variously for storage, refuge, or both. This one had two chambers, and its existence only came to light when the mound covering it was levelled, the kind of quiet, accidental discovery that must have been fairly common in agricultural Ireland.

What survived the levelling is the porthole slab, the dividing stone that once spanned the passage between the two chambers. It is a semi-circular stone with a matching semi-circular aperture cut cleanly from its straight edge, forming a low arch measuring 0.4 metres wide at the base and 0.26 metres high, just large enough to crawl through. The precision of the cutting is notable; this was not rough fieldwork but deliberate, careful shaping. The detail was recorded by J. Cuppage in the 1986 Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey of the Dingle Peninsula, by which point the souterrain itself had already vanished. The site overlooks Short Strand to the north-west, which at least places it in a broader landscape of coastal early medieval activity along this part of Kerry.