They are easy to overlook, low rings of drystone walling and stony banks that barely rise above the grass, yet together they represent a substantial cluster of former human settlement on one of Kerry's more exposed Atlantic fingers of land.

The structures vary considerably in their form and scale. Some are roughly circular, others oval, and others tend towards the sub-rectangular, with internal diameters ranging from as little as 2 metres up to around 6 metres. Several are conjoined, sharing walls or pressing up against one another in ways that suggest they were built and used as part of a related complex rather than as isolated dwellings. Particularly striking is how their builders worked with the landscape rather than against it: sections of naturally outcropping rock are incorporated directly into the walls, meaning the underlying geology of the headland becomes structural material. The survey of the Dingle Peninsula published by J. Cuppage in 1986 under the title Corca Dhuibhne documents these remains, and they sit within a wider pattern of archaeological activity across this part of the peninsula, where early settlement evidence is unusually dense.

The hut-sites lie on and around the ridge that runs along Bull's Head, and their distribution on both flanks as well as the summit gives a sense of a community that once oriented itself around the high spine of the headland, exposed to weather from the bay on all sides.