A clochan is a dry-stone beehive hut, a building technique associated with early medieval Ireland and particularly common along the Atlantic seaboard of Kerry, where monks and hermits raised corbelled cells without mortar. What makes this site notable is not simply its ruined state, but the complexity it once had: four or five of these chambers, laid out in a rough north-south line.

The scholar R. A. S. Macalister recorded the site in 1899, at a point when some structure was still legible. By the time of J. Cuppage's thorough archaeological survey of the Corca Dhuibhne region in 1986, the picture had changed considerably. What remained was a cairn of collapsed stonework, with only the southern end offering any clear reading of the original design. There, the foundation of a circular structure roughly four metres across can still be traced, with an entrance to the east and a second opening to the north. That northern entrance connects to a sub-rectangular enclosure measuring about five by three and a half metres, its edges defined by a grass-grown bank or wall. A further arc of banking roughly two metres to the north hints at the ghost of a third structure, though its original form is no longer certain.