The group is known locally as Púicín na bhFothrach, and what makes it unusual is not simply its age but the way it was dismantled and repurposed. A clochan is a small, beehive-shaped building constructed using corbelled drystone technique, where flat stones are layered in overlapping rings until they close into a dome, without mortar and without a keystone. On the Dingle Peninsula, such structures are relatively common survivals from early medieval monastic and farming life, but this cluster has had a stranger fate than most.

Originally there were seven clochans here. Four were taken apart, probably during the nineteenth century, and their stones used to build the high enclosing wall of a nearby field or garden. The three that remained were not spared so much as incorporated, becoming structural components of that same wall rather than free-standing buildings. The scholar R. A. S. Macalister noted the site in 1899, by which point the largest of the group had apparently still been inhabited as recently as around 1847, a detail that places its last use squarely within the years of the Great Famine. Of the three survivors, the first sits in the north wall of the field: an oval structure, roughly 3.1 metres by 1.5 metres internally and 1.5 metres high, with a lintelled wall-cupboard still visible inside. The second, wedged into the north-east corner, is almost entirely buried under collapse and field-clearance debris, though Macalister recorded it as five-sided on plan, with an internal span of about 1.8 metres. The third has lost all recognisable form and survives only as a buttress-like bulge, some 2.5 metres high, against the east wall, with no way of accessing whatever interior might remain within it.

The three structures together tell a compressed history of how ancient buildings get lost: not through dramatic destruction but through gradual absorption into later, more pressing needs. A wall needed stones; stones were available; the clochans were practical. That one of them was still a dwelling in the 1840s before being folded into a field boundary gives the site a particular kind of quiet weight.