Nothing of it remains above ground. By the time the second edition of the Ordnance Survey map was produced, it was already reduced to a notation: 'site of'. The hollow itself looks southward over Kenmare Bay and the Beara Peninsula, which suggests that whoever chose this place, whether for prayer, solitude, or burial, was not indifferent to the world spread out below them.

What the site actually was remains genuinely uncertain. The original Ordnance Survey Name Books described it as the ruins of a small house, and noted that it contained, in its south-western corner, the grave of a figure recorded as 'Dearmuid O'Dinna'. A later revision shifted the interpretation toward something more devotional, describing it as the site of an ancient church or hermitage associated with a saint named Dermot. A hermitage, in the early Irish Christian tradition, was typically a small and deliberately remote cell where a religious individual might live in isolation, often attached loosely to a larger monastic community but physically withdrawn from it. Whether Temple Dermot was ever more than a modest hut pressed into religious use, or whether it began as a dwelling and acquired sacred status through the person buried there, is a question the archaeology cannot now answer. Around a hundred metres to the south-east, the foundations of a small hut survive, though whether these were ever connected to Temple Dermot itself is unclear.