Visit the spot today and you will find nothing. No bank, no ditch, no earthwork of any kind survives above ground. The ringfort, or rath, a type of enclosed farmstead commonly built across Ireland during the early medieval period, has vanished entirely from the surface, leaving only its cartographic ghost.

What makes the site more intriguing than a simple case of erasure is local tradition. According to information passed down in the area, a souterrain once lay within the enclosure, with several chambers. A souterrain is an underground stone-lined passage or series of chambers, typically associated with early medieval ringforts, and thought to have served for storage, refuge, or both. Multi-chambered examples are not uncommon on the Iveragh Peninsula, but the fact that this one is remembered locally even after the enclosure itself has been lost to time or agriculture suggests it made an impression. Whether the souterrain itself still exists beneath the ground is not recorded. A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan documented the site in their 1996 archaeological survey of South Kerry, noting that the reputed souterrain rests on local information alone rather than confirmed investigation.

The slope in question looks south over the Portmagee Channel, the narrow strait that separates the mainland from Valentia Island. It is the kind of position early settlers favoured, sheltered, with good visibility over water, and that geographical logic remains legible even when the archaeology itself does not.