A clochan is a dry-stone corbelled hut, built without mortar by overlapping successive courses of stone inward until they meet at the top, a technique used in Ireland from early medieval times and associated particularly with monastic and pastoral life along the western seaboard. The fact that there are two here, rather than one, is quietly interesting; clochans appear singly or in small clusters, and a pair suggests either a shared function or a small settlement of some kind.

The earliest documentary trace of these structures is their appearance on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey map, which for most of Ireland was produced in the 1830s and 1840s. That the surveyors marked them at all indicates the buildings were recognisable as distinct features in the landscape at that time, though whether they were still intact or already ruinous is not recorded. The site was catalogued as part of a wider archaeological survey of the Corca Dhuibhne region, the Dingle Peninsula, published by J. Cuppage in 1986 under the auspices of Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne, a survey that remains a key reference for the extraordinary density of early monuments along this stretch of the Kerry coast.