What was once a double clochaun, a pair of the dry-stone beehive huts associated with early Christian monastic and hermitic life along Ireland's Atlantic seaboard, along with an attached forecourt, has been reduced to scattered remnants that would mean little to a passing eye.

The structure was recorded by the scholar R. A. S. Macalister in 1899, at a time when considerably more was presumably visible. Macalister noted the double clochaun and its forecourt, a configuration suggesting a small enclosed complex rather than a single isolated cell. The Dingle Peninsula preserves an exceptional concentration of such early medieval stone structures, many associated with the age of Irish monasticism, roughly the sixth to twelfth centuries, when communities of monks and solitary ascetics built in corbelled stone on remote headlands and in sheltered valleys. By the time the site was included in the Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey in 1986, the picture was already one of significant deterioration, and subsequent years have not reversed that decline.