The structures range considerably in size, from roughly 1.65 by 1.9 metres up to about 3.2 metres in diameter, and that variation in scale tells its own quiet story about how this remote hillside was once used.

At least two of the structures are thought to have functioned as booley huts, the temporary shelters used by herders who practised transhumance, the seasonal movement of livestock to upland pastures during summer months. It was a practice common across Ireland for centuries, with families or hired hands following the animals to higher ground and living rough for the grazing season before descending again in autumn. The remaining four foundations were more likely animal pens or enclosures rather than human habitations, suggesting this was a working pastoral site rather than any kind of permanent settlement. The survey of the Dingle Peninsula carried out by J. Cuppage and published in 1986 as part of the Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey first documented this cluster formally, placing it within a broader pattern of upland land use that shaped much of the peninsula's pre-modern landscape.