They are easy to overlook, low and unassuming, their walls of drystone construction, which is stone laid without mortar, surviving to just half a metre in height with a wall thickness of around 1.25 metres. The larger of the two measures four metres in diameter, the smaller two metres, and together they form a conjoined pair with a possible third structure pressing against the northern side of the western one.

This kind of hut site, modest and roofless now, is a recurring feature of the Irish upland landscape, particularly in the west. They are generally associated with seasonal occupation, whether by farmers moving livestock to summer pastures, or by earlier communities for whom the hill margins were working land rather than wilderness. The site on Eask Hill was recorded by archaeologist J. Cuppage as part of the Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey published in 1986, a wide-ranging effort to document the remarkable concentration of prehistoric and early medieval remains across the Dingle Peninsula. That peninsula is one of the most archaeologically dense parts of Ireland, and sites like this one, unremarkable at first glance, form part of a long pattern of human presence on ground that can seem, to a modern eye, impossibly remote.