The remains of a circular hut site at Gortacreenteen measure just 2.2 metres in diameter, its drystone walls, built without mortar by stacking and fitting stone against stone, now reduced to a height of around 0.2 metres and largely hidden beneath a skin of turf. A narrow entrance, half a metre wide, faces south, the direction that would have offered the most shelter from the prevailing weather off the Atlantic hills.

What makes the site quietly compelling is that it does not stand alone. Another hut sits just 6 metres to the south-east, and two further examples lie roughly 65 metres to the north-east, scattered across the same rough hill pasture. Together they suggest a cluster of small seasonal or temporary structures, the kind of settlement associated with transhumance, the old practice of moving livestock to higher grazing ground in summer, known in Ireland as booleying. In that tradition, these modest enclosures would have been temporary homes for those watching over cattle or sheep on the upland pasture, built quickly, used seasonally, and left to the hillside when the season turned. The Slaheny River valley below would have offered the permanent farmland, while the slopes above served as common grazing. The precise date of the Gortacreenteen huts is not recorded, but such sites are found across Kerry's uplands and span a considerable range of periods.