They are corbelled drystone huts, a building technique in which courses of flat stone are laid so that each overlaps slightly inward over the one below, gradually closing to form a roof without any mortar and without any timber. The result is something between a beehive and a barrel vault, entirely self-supporting, and capable of outlasting almost anything else a person might build.

The two huts differ enough to suggest they may have served different purposes, or simply different builders. The first is oval in plan, measuring roughly 2.58 by 1.42 metres across and standing 1.15 metres high, with walls about 0.7 metres thick; it is compact to the point of austerity. The second is larger and more considered in its construction, nearly circular, somewhere between 3.14 and 3.43 metres in diameter and standing 2.1 metres high. What distinguishes it is the detail: four niches are set into the wall, each one finished with a lintel stone across the top. Niches of this kind could have held lamps, tools, or small objects of significance, and their presence in a structure this remote adds a quiet domesticity to what might otherwise read as a simple shelter. Both huts are recorded in J. Cuppage's 1986 archaeological survey of the Corca Dhuibhne region, a thorough inventory of the Dingle Peninsula's extraordinary concentration of early remains, published by Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne in Ballyferriter. Whether these structures date to the early medieval period, when solitary corbelled huts were built by hermits and seasonal herders alike across the Atlantic margins of Ireland, or to some other phase of occupation, the notes do not say.