What makes them worth pausing over is their number and their company: this is not an isolated building but one of seven huts grouped together, each confirmed as dating to the 19th century.

The site was identified and inspected in 2003, when archaeologists established that this hut and its six neighbours all belong to the same period. The 19th century in rural Kerry was a time of enormous upheaval, and small field shelters or seasonal dwellings of this kind are often associated with the pressures of that era, whether the remnants of booley huts used during transhumance, the practice of moving livestock to upland pastures in summer, or structures connected to the desperate improvisations of the Famine decades. The notes do not specify which function these particular huts served, but their grouping suggests coordinated use rather than isolated habitation. Seven huts in proximity points to a community of some kind, however temporary or seasonal its presence may have been.