A clochaun, or clochán, once stood here: one of the dry-stone beehive huts built without mortar, relying entirely on the careful corbelling of flat stones to create a domed or rounded interior. These structures are scattered across the western Kerry landscape, some still intact, others reduced to a ring of tumbled stone. The one at Fán belongs to the latter story.

The record of its former presence comes from a researcher named Curran, whose survey noted the site as number 21 in a sequence of such observations. By the time the Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey was compiled and published in 1986, the clochaun had already passed out of existence as a standing structure, surviving only as a notation. That it was recorded at all places it within a broader effort to document the extraordinary density of early medieval and prehistoric remains across the Corca Dhuibhne area, a peninsula where the ground holds an unusual concentration of field monuments from multiple periods.