These are the remains of ancient hut sites, small domestic structures whose builders dug into the sloping ground on one side and piled the spoil into a low enclosing bank on the other, creating a semi-sunken, sheltered floor. Four of them are grouped closely together, with a fifth occurring separately near the south side of Coosgorm. They range in diameter from roughly three to five and a half metres, modest spaces that would have provided just enough room for a few people to sleep, store tools, or shelter from the Atlantic weather.

The promontory itself, known in Irish as An Dún Mór and An Dún Beag, the large fort and the small fort, takes its character from the landscape of the Corca Dhuibhne, the old territory that gives the Dingle Peninsula much of its archaeological identity. The hut sites were documented by J. Cuppage in the 1986 Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey, a systematic field study of the peninsula that brought together evidence of settlement, ritual, and land use stretching back thousands of years. The form of these structures, cut into the hillside and banked rather than built upward with stone, is a common enough type in Atlantic Ireland, but the concentration of four sites in close proximity suggests a small community occupying this exposed coastal edge, perhaps seasonally, drawn by the sea, the grazing ground, or both.