What makes their position quietly odd is that they were not built on open ground but on top of a demolished portion of an older enclosure wall, effectively cannibalising an earlier structure to raise something new. They are clochauns, a term for the corbelled dry-stone huts found across early Christian Ireland, built without mortar and relying entirely on the careful inward lean of each successive stone course to close the roof. Here, the two huts were constructed side by side and share a conjoined form.

Clochan A is the better preserved of the pair. Its wall survives to around 1.2 metres in height in places and is more than a metre thick on average, with a smooth internal face and a clear corbelled incline rising from the base. The internal diameter reaches 5.5 metres at its widest, which is a telling measurement: that is larger than corbelling alone could span in stone, and archaeologists working from the Dingle Peninsula survey compiled by J. Cuppage in 1986 concluded that the final roof was almost certainly of timber and thatch rather than stone. The structure began in the old tradition but ended with something more pragmatic. A further detail surrounds both huts on nearly all sides: an annulus, a ring-shaped feature set around the outside of the walls, a form also recorded at the stone house on Church Island and documented by M. J. O'Kelly in 1958. Its function is not entirely settled, but its presence here links this site to a small group of early ecclesiastical structures along the western Irish seaboard.

The site sits within a burial ground known as Calluragh or An Cheallnúach, a name pointing to ecclesiastical origins, and its elevated position gives it a commanding aspect over the surrounding landscape. Visitors approaching from Ballyferriter will find the ground rises steadily, and the harbour opens to the north as the site comes into view.