What makes the spot quietly interesting is not any single dramatic feature but the combination of two things occupying the same ground: the remains of three drystone huts, their foundations still legible, set within the southern wall of a subcircular enclosure roughly seven metres across. Drystone construction, as the name suggests, uses no mortar, relying instead on the careful stacking and fitting of stone, and it was a technique used across Ireland for centuries in both domestic and agricultural contexts.

The enclosure itself is described as poorly preserved and subcircular rather than truly circular, the kind of imprecision that tends to accumulate over time in exposed upland ground. Sites of this type on the Iveragh Peninsula, the great south-western finger of Kerry that includes the Ring of Kerry, were documented in detail by A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan in their 1996 archaeological survey of the area, published by Cork University Press. That survey drew together evidence of settlement and land use across a landscape that has been occupied, worked, and abandoned in various forms over many centuries. The hut foundations at Rehill fit into that broader pattern of marginal-land habitation, where communities or individual households made use of sheltered terraces even on ground that would not have been especially productive.