What makes them quietly unusual is that although they are conjoined, sharing a wall, there is no connecting passage between them. Whoever used these structures moved between them by going outside, a detail that raises questions about how the two spaces related to one another and what each was for.

The eastern hut is roughly D-shaped, with a diameter of about 2.5 metres, walls surviving to around 1.4 metres in height and roughly 1.1 metres thick. The western hut is in poorer condition, visible mainly as a depression in the ground lined with large flat slabs, its diameter ranging from 2.2 to 2.6 metres and its surviving height just 0.6 metres. Structures of this kind, small dry-stone or earthen huts built without mortar, are found across the Dingle Peninsula and the broader landscape of the Corca Dhuibhne region, which preserves one of the densest concentrations of early medieval and prehistoric field monuments in Ireland. The Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey, published by J. Cuppage in 1986, catalogued this site among hundreds of others on a peninsula where ancient structures are embedded in the farmed and grazed land almost without interruption.