These are clochans, beehive-shaped dwellings built entirely without mortar, their walls drawn inward course by course until the stones meet overhead in a technique known as corbelling. Five of them survive within the enclosure of Cathair Deargáin, a roughly circular cashel, meaning a stone-walled ringfort, that also contains one or possibly two souterrains, underground passages that would have served for storage or refuge.

All five huts are circular or sub-circular in plan and constructed from drystone, each wall locked together by the weight and careful placement of the stones alone. The westernmost of the group has been examined in some detail. Internally it measures 4.9 metres by 4.4 metres, and its walls reach a maximum height of 2.4 metres. Something interesting happens about a metre up: below that point the stonework is noticeably neater, built from smaller, more carefully selected pieces, while the upper courses are rougher and less regular. The change in technique suggests the hut was at some point partially rebuilt, its lower walls left intact while the upper section was reconstructed, perhaps after collapse or damage. The doorway, just 75 centimetres high and 40 centimetres wide, is lintelled and faces northeast; you would have to crouch to enter. Short stretches of connecting wall tie this hut to its neighbour and to the inner face of the surrounding cashel, giving the whole compound a sense of having been planned and modified across time rather than built all at once. The site was surveyed and described by J. Cuppage in the 1986 Dingle Peninsula Archaeological Survey, a publication that remains a foundational reference for the archaeology of the Corca Dhuibhne region.