What makes them worth pausing over is their number and their context: not one or two isolated shelters, but seven huts identified together, all confirmed as dating to the 19th century.

The site was inspected in 2003, when archaeologists established that this hut and six neighbours were contemporaneous, all belonging to the same period. The 19th century in rural Kerry was a time of considerable hardship and upheaval, and modest stone huts of this kind could have served a range of purposes. Booley huts, used by those who moved cattle to upland pastures during summer months in a practice known as transhumance, were common across Ireland's hillier terrain. Alternatively, structures of this type were sometimes built as temporary shelters during turf-cutting or other seasonal agricultural work, or in grimmer circumstances, as basic dwellings during periods of rural distress. Without more specific excavation or documentary evidence attached to this particular group, the precise function of the An Bhinn Bhán huts remains open, though their clustering strongly suggests a shared, organised use of this part of the hillside rather than chance or individual need.