What makes this cluster unusual is the combination of domestic shelter and agricultural effort compressed into so compact a space, all of it built from drystone, a technique in which stones are laid without mortar, relying on careful selection and placement for stability.

The complex consists of a roughly square ruined hut whose walls still stand to around a metre on the western side, built with a drystone face and a rubble core. Below it and further to the west, a pair of parallel drystone walls, each run of stone extending 7.5 metres and the two walls set 4.7 metres apart, defined an area that was used for tillage. The ground between them was, at some point, cultivated. Further downslope to the west again is a second hut, rectangular in plan and notably small, measuring just 2.1 metres by 1 metre internally and only a metre high inside. Stone steps lead up to its entrance, which faces west and is topped with a lintel, a flat stone laid horizontally across the doorway to carry the weight above. The entrance itself is less than a metre high and half a metre wide, so entry would have required stooping. A rectangular terrace was cut in front of this lower structure. The site was documented as part of the archaeological survey of South Kerry compiled by A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan, published by Cork University Press in 1996.

The structures are small enough that it is easy to underestimate what they represent: people living and working at altitude on a Kerry hillside, coaxing tillage from ground that is now given over entirely to rough grazing. The terracing and the cultivation walls suggest a deliberate and sustained effort to make the land productive, while the two huts, cramped as they are, provided whatever shelter the work required.