They are corbelled drystone huts, a type of dry-built circular shelter constructed without mortar, with each course of stone laid so that it projects slightly inward over the one below, eventually closing to form a beehive-shaped roof. The larger of the two measures just over three metres in diameter and stands 1.7 metres high, with walls more than a metre thick. The smaller reaches 2.35 metres across and 1.1 metres in height. These are not ruins in the conventional sense; they are survivals, built using a technique that has existed on this peninsula since early Christian times, perhaps earlier.

The site is recorded under the Irish placename Cloghaunlea, or An Clochán Liath, the grey little stone hut, a name that gives some sense of how ordinary such structures once were in this landscape. Brandon Mountain, known in Irish as Cnoc Bhréanainn, has long been associated with early monastic activity and pilgrimage, and beehive huts of this kind are scattered across the Dingle Peninsula in some number. Whether these two served as shelters for pilgrims, hermits, or simply as field huts for agricultural use is not recorded. The structures were documented by J. Cuppage in the 1986 Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey, a detailed study of the Dingle Peninsula that brought systematic attention to dozens of sites like these that might otherwise have remained unclassified.