They are easy to overlook, and that is partly the point. These are not the remains of a settlement in any permanent sense, but rather the traces of a seasonal, working landscape, constructed from the mountain itself and left more or less where they stood.

The structures are built in the corbelled drystone technique, meaning the walls were raised without mortar, with stones laid so that each course projects slightly inward over the one below, eventually closing into a rough dome or roof. Their diameters range from as little as 1.65 by 1.9 metres up to 3.2 metres, which gives some sense of how varied their intended uses were. Two of the six are thought to have functioned as booley huts, the small temporary shelters used by herders who brought cattle up to upland pastures during the summer months, a practice known in Irish as booleying. The remaining structures were more likely animal pens or simple shelters for livestock. Together they represent a particular rhythm of rural life on the peninsula, one in which the mountain was not a boundary but a seasonal resource. The site is documented in J. Cuppage's 1986 archaeological survey of the Corca Dhuibhne region, which catalogued the remarkable density of early remains across the Dingle Peninsula.