What makes them worth pausing over is not their size but their construction: both are corbelled drystone huts, built without mortar, with each successive course of stone laid slightly inward until the walls close overhead. It is an ancient technique, patient and precise, and it produces structures that can endure for centuries under Atlantic weather without a single piece of cut timber.

The two huts differ considerably in their detail. The easternmost is modest, roughly 2.25 metres in diameter and 2 metres high, with a small rectangular enclosure abutting its south-east side and a single niche set into the interior wall, the kind of small recess that would have held a candle, a tool, or a religious object. The second hut is more complex: its lintelled entrance faces west-south-west and opens not directly into the open air but into a rectangular yard, roughly 9 by 5.5 metres, which appears to be a later addition. Inside, six wall niches are distributed around the interior, and directly opposite the entrance is a chamber of around 2 metres in length, partly hollowed into the thickness of the wall itself and partly extending beneath the ground outside. The ruins of two further possible structures abut its north-west side. The entire group was documented in the 1986 Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey compiled by J. Cuppage, a thorough inventory of the Dingle Peninsula that brought many such upland sites into the formal record. Whether the huts were used seasonally by those grazing animals on the mountain slopes, or served some earlier and less obvious purpose, the notes do not say with certainty.