The structures in question are clochans, a type of dry-stone beehive hut built without mortar, relying instead on carefully corbelled stonework that steps inward course by course until the walls meet overhead. They are associated primarily with early medieval monastic and hermitic life in Ireland, though some examples on the Dingle Peninsula may have served more practical agricultural purposes at various points across the centuries. The fact that a pair survive here, or at least survived long enough to be mapped, places them within a broader pattern of such structures scattered across the western end of the peninsula, a landscape that contains one of the densest concentrations of early medieval remains anywhere in the country.