The better preserved of the pair measures just two metres by three, ringed by an earthen bank that rises no more than fifteen centimetres at its highest. It is easy to walk past without noticing anything at all.

The enclosure belongs to a class known as a univallate rath, a type of circular or oval farmstead enclosed by a single earthen bank and ditch, common across Ireland during the early medieval period. Within this one, the two huts were built hard against the inner face of the bank on its north-west side, a practical arrangement that would have offered some shelter from the prevailing weather. The site sits on the eastern flank of a mountain ridge that divides two glacially carved valleys, Glanlough and Glanteenassig, in the Corca Dhuibhne, or Dingle Peninsula, region of west Kerry. The details were recorded by J. Cuppage in the 1986 archaeological survey of the Dingle Peninsula, a systematic effort to document the extraordinary concentration of ancient monuments on that narrow strip of land extending into the Atlantic.