What makes the site quietly remarkable is the sheer variety packed into such a compact area: the structures range in shape from sub-rectangular through oval to circular, and in internal diameter from as little as 2 metres to as much as 6 metres, suggesting a settlement that grew incrementally rather than to any single plan. Several of the huts are conjoined, sharing walls the way later vernacular buildings often did, and the builders made liberal use of whatever the land offered, incorporating sections of exposed bedrock directly into their construction.

The remains survive as low drystone walls or stony banks, the kind of subtle earthwork that is easily missed without a deliberate eye. Drystone construction, which uses no mortar and relies entirely on the careful fitting of stones, was common across early Irish settlement sites, and the technique proves remarkably durable even where the walls have slumped to little more than a grassy mound. The survey of the Dingle Peninsula carried out by J. Cuppage, published in 1986 under the title 'Corca Dhuibhne', brought systematic attention to this cluster and to the broader archaeology of the area, recording the hut-sites as part of a landscape dense with pre-medieval remains. The promontory's position, exposed and sea-facing, would have made it a functional as well as a dramatic place to settle, with clear sight-lines in multiple directions across the bay.