A clochan, sometimes spelled clochán, is a dry-stone beehive hut, built without mortar, with corbelled walls that curve inward to form a self-supporting domed roof. These small structures are associated with early Christian monastic settlement and are found in some concentration along this stretch of the Atlantic coast. What makes this particular site quietly interesting is the note attached to it: the clochan described here was recorded as similar to a nearby one that does survive, suggesting the two were once a matched pair, perhaps part of the same small complex or settlement cluster.

The description draws on the Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey published in 1986 by J. Cuppage, a landmark survey of the Dingle Peninsula that brought together local information and field observation across the whole peninsula. The area around An Baile Uachtarach Theas, in the Irish-speaking heartland of Corca Dhuibhne, contains a concentration of early medieval remains, and clochans here were likely connected to the intense monastic and hermitic activity that characterised this coastward edge of early Christian Ireland. That one of the pair still stands, recorded under its own separate reference, gives some sense of what the vanished structure would once have looked like.