The huts themselves are built in the corbelled drystone technique, whereby flat stones are layered inward and upward in gradually tightening courses until they close into a roof, requiring no mortar and no timber. That the structure survives at all on an exposed Atlantic hillside is its own quiet achievement.

The two huts are conjoined and circular, and the southern one is the more complex of the pair. It retains a lintelled entrance passage just over a metre high and less than a metre wide, a small niche cut into the wall at the north-north-east, and a separate flagged entrance at the north-west. From the western side of this same hut opens the souterrain, a type of underground stone-built passage or chamber associated with early medieval settlement in Ireland, used variously for storage, refuge, or both. The opening here is notably tight, only 0.7 metres wide and 0.35 metres high, demanding that anyone entering do so on hands and knees. Inside, the passage runs south for roughly 1.2 metres before turning south-east, the floor sloping gradually downward as the headroom increases. At the bend it widens into a chamber 2.2 metres long and just over a metre wide, with a standing height of 1.43 metres. A small recess sits in the southern wall of the passage, set about 0.3 metres above the present floor level, its original purpose unrecorded but likely practical. The structure was documented in J. Cuppage's 1986 archaeological survey of the Dingle Peninsula, the Corca Dhuibhne survey published by Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne, which remains the foundational reference for the area's early remains.