They are easy to miss, sitting close to the ground, their walls reduced to stony banks or courses of drystone walling, but together they form a small settlement of considerable archaeological interest. What makes the site quietly striking is its variety: the structures range in plan from roughly rectangular to oval to circular, and in internal diameter from as little as 2 metres to as much as 6, suggesting different functions or different periods of use within the same community.

The huts extend westward from a set of enclosing walls along both sides of the central ridge and across its summit, a layout that seems deliberate rather than accidental. Several of the structures are conjoined, sharing walls in the way that later Irish vernacular buildings often did, with one cell opening into another. Many of them make use of the bedrock itself, incorporating sections of outcropping stone directly into their construction, a practical economy that also anchors them firmly to the specific geology of the headland. The site was documented by J. Cuppage in the 1986 Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey, a comprehensive inventory of the Corca Dhuibhne region that brought many such low-profile sites to wider attention for the first time.