What makes the cluster quietly arresting is its variety: the structures range in plan from roughly rectangular to oval to circular, and in internal diameter from as little as two metres to as much as six, suggesting not a single moment of construction but something more accumulated and inhabited over time.

The huts are built from drystone, a technique requiring no mortar, the stones simply laid and fitted against one another, and many of the structures have taken the landscape into their fabric by incorporating sections of bedrock directly into their walls. Several are conjoined, sharing a wall or abutting one another in ways that imply a community making practical use of a confined and exposed space. The description of the site was first compiled by J. Cuppage in the 1986 Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey, published under the Irish-language title referencing Corca Dhuibhne, the ancient territory that covers much of the peninsula. That survey remains a foundational document for understanding the density of early settlement on this stretch of the Kerry coast, where the Atlantic weather and the thin soils did not discourage people so much as concentrate them onto the more sheltered and workable ground.