The stones were taken away sometime in the 1960s, used in construction elsewhere, leaving behind a site that is more absence than presence. It is the kind of erasure that happened quietly and practically all across rural Ireland during that period, when old field stones were simply useful, and the idea that a rough circle of masonry in rough pasture might be worth preserving had not yet settled into common habit.

What makes this particular spot worth noting is what remains despite that clearance. Beneath or beside the vanished hut, according to local information, is a souterrain, now closed up. A souterrain is an underground stone-lined passage or chamber, typically associated with early medieval settlement in Ireland, and often used for storage, refuge, or both. The fact that one survives here, sealed but apparently intact, suggests the site was once a more substantial place of occupation than a single hut in rough pasture might imply. Souterrains are frequently found in association with early medieval ringforts and settlement clusters, and their construction required considerable effort and communal organisation. The hut above ground is gone, but something purposefully built underground has outlasted it.

The site sits in the landscape of the Iveragh Peninsula, a part of Kerry that holds an exceptionally dense concentration of early medieval and prehistoric remains. The slopes of Bentee are not well-tramped tourist ground, and the site itself offers little visually to a casual visitor now that the surface stonework has been removed. The interest here is largely conceptual: a souterrain quietly sealed beneath a hillside, the stones of whatever once stood above it repurposed a few decades ago into somebody's wall or building.