Three of them sit on an island in a mountain stream, an arrangement that feels less like accident than intention, while a fourth stands a little higher up the slope, slightly apart from the others. These are clochans, the dry-stone corbelled huts associated with early Christian monastic and hermitic life in Ireland, built without mortar by placing stones in overlapping courses that gradually close to form a roof, the same basic technique seen at the famous beehive cells of the Skellig Michael monastery offshore.

The four structures vary considerably in form and quality of construction. The first is oval in plan, roofed with horizontal lintels rather than a fully corbelled dome, and has a semicircular wall extending southward from it, suggesting some ancillary use, perhaps an enclosure for animals or a sheltered work area. Two others are subrectangular in plan, one of them partly rebuilt and accompanied by the overgrown foundations of what may have been a conjoined hut. The fourth, sitting higher on the mountainside, is the most accomplished of the group: roughly square, with an entrance just forty-five centimetres wide facing east, and walls of noticeably more regular construction than those below. It incorporates three corbelled chambers, two of which still retain their roofing lintels. That a single small building at this altitude should contain such carefully finished internal chambers points to a degree of deliberate craftsmanship that the lower, rougher huts do not quite match. The site was noted by the scholar Françoise Henry in 1957, whose early documentation remains a point of reference for the group.