What survives is fragmentary, the kind of remains that a passing walker might take for a natural tumble of rock, yet the outlines are deliberate and human in their geometry. The larger of the two measures roughly 5.6 metres across, the smaller about 3.5 metres, and the walls still stand to around 0.65 metres, enough to read the plan of the structures even as the stones slowly reacquaint themselves with the hillside.

Conjoined hut sites of this type are a recurring feature of the Dingle Peninsula, that long finger of land in County Kerry where early medieval and prehistoric settlement left an unusually dense archaeological footprint. They are generally understood as the remains of simple circular or subcircular stone dwellings, dry-built without mortar, associated with farming communities working marginal upland ground. The pairing of two huts sharing a wall suggests either a two-phase construction or a deliberate arrangement to divide domestic and storage functions. The site at Cill Chúile was recorded and described by J. Cuppage in the 1986 Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey, a foundational document for understanding settlement patterns across this part of Kerry.