There are seven of them in total, none rising above a metre and a half, and the difficulty they present to anyone trying to make sense of them is part of what makes them interesting. At least three appear to be relatively recent sheep-shelters, but the remainder are harder to classify. Their ruinous condition means that interpretation is genuinely uncertain, and that uncertainty is honest rather than evasive.

The best-preserved structure is a circular drystone building, roughly 3.6 metres in diameter with walls a metre thick, that has at some point been absorbed into a later sheep-fold. Drystone construction, which uses no mortar, was the dominant building technique for early Irish structures of this kind, and the walls here survive to 1.5 metres. More intriguingly, the building apparently contains a souterrain, an underground passage or chamber of the sort commonly associated with early medieval settlement in Ireland, typically used for storage or concealment. The archaeologist R. A. S. Macalister noted this feature as early as 1899. The site was later documented in the Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey of the Dingle Peninsula, published in 1986, which recorded the group and flagged the interpretive problem directly: too ruined to be certain, but too structured to be dismissed.