What they actually represent is the footprint of a small subcircular hut, roughly six metres by five, built from rough boulders and now reduced to overgrown foundations, with the remnants of old field walls lying nearby in a similar state of collapse.

The site sits on the southern side of a stream in Drom Na Coille, on the Iveragh Peninsula in County Kerry. Subcircular stone huts of this kind, constructed without mortar from whatever boulders lay to hand, are a recurring feature of the Kerry landscape, and they span an enormous range of periods; without excavation it is rarely possible to say whether a given example is early medieval, post-medieval, or something in between. What the collapsed field walls do suggest is a more complete agricultural system once existing here, small enclosures shaped around the demands of grazing or tillage in marginal, wet ground. That such a system left any trace at all in boggy pasture this close to a river valley is itself of some note, since waterlogged ground tends to swallow stone structures quickly once their upkeep ceases.