What makes the site quietly compelling is not just its age but the way it has been lived in and altered over time, wall alignments shifted, surfaces rebuilt, the original outline quietly abandoned in favour of something more practical to whoever was working there last.

The site was documented by J. Cuppage in the 1986 Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey, a substantial field study of the Corca Dhuibhne region published by Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne. One of the huts, numbered sixth in the survey, shows particularly clear signs of modification: the enclosure wall at the south-south-west has been incorporated as the inner face of the hut itself, and the eastern wall was rebuilt at some point but not precisely along its original line. On the southern side, a wall-cupboard survives at present ground level, a small recess built directly into the stonework, and to its west the wall still stands to a height of 1.6 metres. That detail, a domestic shelf of sorts set into a mountain-slope wall, gives the whole complex an unexpected intimacy. Someone arranged stones here to keep something close to hand.