The site is unusual not because hut remains and burial grounds are individually rare on the Dingle Peninsula, but because here they occupy the same space, the graves filling whatever ground the huts do not. The circular enclosure served as a calluragh until the 19th century, a calluragh being an unenconsecrated or informal burial ground, often used for unbaptised infants and others excluded from churchyard burial, a quietly sorrowful category of site found in various forms across Ireland.

The enclosure at Na Gleannta Thuaidh contains the traceable foundations of three huts, with the remaining interior described, in J. Cuppage's 1986 archaeological survey of the Corca Dhuibhne region, as completely taken up with graves. One of those huts measures roughly six metres north to south and five metres east to west internally, its walls now largely reduced to a spread of collapsed stone, with only short stretches of original facing still visible. The east-facing entrance survives in part, marked on one side by a single low upright stone. Whether the huts predate the burial ground or were in some way associated with its use is not recorded, but their coexistence within the same enclosure gives the site an layered quality that is difficult to read at a glance.