They survive not as standing walls but as low banks of earth and stone, the accumulated slump of structures that were once somebody's shelter or dwelling. The more northerly of the two is roughly circular, its wall reduced to a spread no more than 0.8 metres high at its greatest extent. A probable entrance once faced south, a common orientation in early Irish vernacular building, where positioning a doorway away from the prevailing Atlantic wind was a simple matter of practicality.

The place-name attached to the wider site is Lisgortaphuca, rendered in Irish as Lios Gort an Phúca, meaning something close to the fort-field of the púca, a reference to the shape-shifting creature of Irish folklore. The hut-sites sit within what the name implies is a lios, an enclosure of the kind associated with early medieval settlement, though the exact dating of these particular remains is not recorded. The archaeological survey of the Dingle Peninsula, carried out by J. Cuppage and published in 1986 under the title Corca Dhuibhne, documented the site as part of a wider effort to catalogue the extraordinary density of early remains across this westernmost stretch of Kerry, where centuries of occupation have left the landscape quietly layered with evidence.