A clochan is a dry-stone corbelled hut, built without mortar by stacking and overlapping stones inward until they meet at the top, a technique used in Ireland from early medieval times through to the post-medieval period. The structure's existence was captured on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey map, meaning it was recorded by surveyors working in the early to mid nineteenth century, even if little else about it was written down at the time.

The site appears in the 1986 archaeological survey of the Corca Dhuibhne region compiled by J. Cuppage, a systematic study of the Dingle Peninsula that brought together records of monuments across this exceptionally dense archaeological landscape. The survey catalogued the clochan at Baile Uí Shé as a circular structure, noting its presence on that early OS map. Beyond that, the documentary trail is thin. The Dingle Peninsula as a whole is one of the more archaeologically layered parts of Ireland, where early Christian remains, field systems, and vernacular stone structures accumulated over centuries in close proximity, and a small corbelled hut in this area would not have been unusual in its original context, even if its precise age and function are now difficult to establish.