The confusion has a modest paper trail. Two researchers, O'Connell and Henry, both recorded a dolmen at this location as early as 1957, citing it in good faith as a megalithic monument. The site sits in dense forestry, which may explain why the structure was never properly examined at close quarters, and when archaeologists working on the Iveragh Peninsula survey in the 1990s went to investigate, they could not locate it at all. What they could do was look at a photograph taken by O'Connell, and from that image the structure reads not as prehistoric funerary architecture but as the kind of functional stone shelter that farmers across Kerry have long built to protect young animals from the elements, its roofed form mimicking the profile of a dolmen just convincingly enough to mislead at a distance.

The episode is a small but telling illustration of how archaeological inventories accumulate errors, particularly in landscapes that are difficult to access. A note in a field report, a photograph taken from an angle that flatters the stonework, dense planting that prevents verification, and a modest local monument accrues a prehistory it probably never had. The actual site remains unlocated.