A clochan is a dry-stone beehive hut, built without mortar using a corbelling technique in which each course of stone projects slightly inward over the last until the structure closes at the top. They are closely associated with early Christian monastic life along the western seaboard, though some examples on the Dingle Peninsula are thought to predate the Christian period entirely.

The sole documentary trace of this particular pair comes from the first edition Ordnance Survey mapping, which places them firmly in the landscape before the mid-nineteenth century. They appear in the 1986 archaeological survey of the Corca Dhuibhne region compiled by Judith Cuppage, a systematic effort to catalogue the extraordinary density of prehistoric and early medieval remains across the Dingle Peninsula. That survey recorded them simply as two circular structures, without elaborating on their condition or dimensions, which itself suggests the remains may have been reduced or ambiguous even by that point.