These were not grand buildings. They were places where people lived, worked, or sheltered, their walls sometimes of stone, sometimes of timber or turf, leaving behind only the faintest impression for later generations to read in the earth.

Dromavally as a place-name is itself quietly informative. The Irish townland system parcels the Irish countryside into thousands of small units, many of whose names encode something of the land's character or history, and Kerry is particularly dense with them. Hut sites in the county range from Bronze Age cooking and habitation spots to early Christian period enclosures, and without more detailed information it is difficult to say precisely where in that long span this particular site belongs. What can be said is that Kerry's terrain, with its combination of mountain, bog, and coastal edge, has preserved archaeological features that were long overlooked simply because the land around them was never heavily disturbed.