What makes this modest pair of structures quietly remarkable is not just their age but the hidden passage beneath one of them: a souterrain, an underground stone-lined tunnel used in early medieval Ireland for storage, refuge, or both, which runs for four and a half metres beneath the larger western hut, though its roofing slabs have long since disappeared.

The two conjoined huts are oval to circular in plan. The larger western one measures six by five metres internally, while its smaller companion measures five and a half by three metres. A third possible structure to the south-east is roughly triangular in outline, measuring four by four metres, and may represent a further, less well-preserved building associated with the same settlement. The souterrain within the larger hut is a narrow affair, just sixty centimetres wide and a metre high, barely enough to crouch through. Structures like these, scattered across the Dingle Peninsula, were documented in detail by J. Cuppage in the 1986 Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey, which remains a foundational record of the extraordinary density of early settlement remains in this part of Kerry. The boggy ground that now surrounds the site has, in its way, helped preserve what little survives above ground.