These are clochans, the corbelled dry-stone structures characteristic of early medieval Ireland, built without mortar by stacking and angling flat stones inward until they meet at the top to form a beehive-like roof. They survive here as ruins, arranged roughly in a row just to the east of a cashel, the low circular stone enclosure that forms the main monument of the site.

The cashel itself is known as Cathair Fionnuragh, or Cathair a Bhoghasin, and the three clochans sit immediately south of its entrance. That positioning is significant. Excavation work reported by E. Gibbons in 1998 noted that a direct relationship between the clochans and the cashel cannot be ruled out, which is a careful way of saying that the huts may well have belonged to the same settlement, forming part of the enclosed farmstead or monastic compound that the cashel once bounded. Cashels of this type are common across the Dingle Peninsula and wider Kerry, but the survival of associated outbuildings alongside them is less reliable, making the figure-of-eight pairing here a relatively unusual remnant of how such enclosures were actually used and arranged.