They are built in the drystone corbelled tradition, a technique in which stones are layered inward and upward without mortar until they meet at a central point, forming a self-supporting dome. The northern of the two is the more solidly built, though its roof has long since collapsed inward. Its entrance, now blocked, would have admitted a person only if they stooped: less than a metre high and tapering slightly as it goes in. The internal diameter measures just under four metres, the walls nearly a metre to just over two metres thick. These are not grand structures, but they are careful ones.

The site sits in rough mountain pasture on the southern slopes, surrounded by the remains of old field walls and what appear to be rudimentary sheep shelters. That agricultural context matters. Corbelled stone huts of this kind appear across the Dingle Peninsula in considerable numbers, and their origins and functions are not always easy to untangle. Some are early medieval in character, associated with hermits, pilgrims, or seasonal farming activity; others are more recent adaptations or rebuildings, reusing an ancient form for entirely practical purposes such as sheltering animals or storing tools during the summer grazing season known as the booley. The proximity of sheep shelters and field walls here suggests the site was woven into a working upland landscape, though whether the huts themselves were ever domestic, agricultural, or something older is not recorded. J. Cuppage documented the site in the 1986 Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey of the Dingle Peninsula, a foundational catalogue of the area's extraordinary density of early remains.