What makes the spot quietly arresting is the pairing: two structures built together, conjoined, one measuring roughly three metres across internally and the other a slightly smaller oval of about two and a half by two metres. They are modest in scale, the kind of shelters that would have housed a person or a small family, possibly seasonally, possibly as part of the ancient practice of transhumance, the movement of people and livestock to upland pastures during summer months.

The site was recorded as part of the Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey, a systematic study of the Dingle Peninsula published in 1986 by J. Cuppage under the auspices of Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne. The peninsula is one of the most densely layered archaeological landscapes in Ireland, and hut sites of this kind, sometimes called clochán foundations when built in dry stone, are scattered across its hillsides in considerable numbers. The conjoined plan here, two circles sharing a common element of their structure, suggests the two spaces were intended to function together, perhaps one for sleeping and one for storing or sheltering animals, though the surviving remains are too fragmentary to say with certainty.