What draws the eye, once you know to look, is the variety of forms: some structures are roughly circular, others oval, others nudging toward the sub-rectangular, with internal diameters ranging from as little as two metres up to six. These are not the remains of grand architecture but of something far more ordinary and therefore stranger, the quiet evidence of people who lived and sheltered here, building walls from whatever the ground offered.

The huts were constructed using drystone technique, meaning no mortar, just carefully fitted stones relying on their own weight and arrangement for stability. Many of the structures make use of the bedrock itself, incorporating outcrops of natural stone directly into their walls rather than working around them. Several are conjoined, sharing walls or running up against one another in ways that suggest incremental occupation rather than a single planned settlement. The cluster was recorded and described by J. Cuppage in the 1986 Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey, published under the Irish title Corca Dhuibhne, a survey that brought systematic attention to the extraordinary concentration of early remains across this part of Kerry. The peninsula as a whole is one of the most archaeologically dense landscapes in Ireland, and the An Coimín sites sit within that broader pattern of early habitation on marginal, wind-exposed ground.