What makes them quietly arresting is the conjunction: two circular structures built of drystone, that is, stone laid without mortar, pressed against one another but with no passage connecting them. Each would have been entered separately, the interiors roughly three metres across, the walls nearly two metres thick. That thickness is not unusual for this kind of construction, where mass substitutes for mortar in keeping the structure stable, but the pairing, without any internal link between the two spaces, raises questions that the stonework alone cannot answer.

The huts sit within the townland of Baile An Ásaigh, a place name rooted in the Irish-speaking landscape of Corca Dhuibhne, the westernmost reach of Kerry. Structures of this type, sometimes called clocháns, are found elsewhere on the Dingle Peninsula and along the Atlantic fringe of Ireland, and they range in date from the early medieval period through to much later vernacular use, making confident dating without excavation difficult. The site was documented as part of J. Cuppage's 1986 archaeological survey of the Dingle Peninsula, a substantial catalogue of the area's ancient and early historic remains, which recorded the huts with measurements precise enough to suggest they survive in reasonably legible condition.