Clocháns are dry-stone beehive huts, constructed without mortar, their corbelled walls drawing inward course by course until they close overhead in a rough dome. They are among the most ancient and recognisable building forms on the Dingle Peninsula, associated in many cases with early Christian monks and hermits who sought out remote and marginal ground.

This particular group occupies the northern side of the river valley in Baile Uí Shé, the Irish townland name reflecting the local Ó Sé family long rooted in this part of Corca Dhuibhne. The site was documented by J. Cuppage in the 1986 Dingle Peninsula Archaeological Survey, a landmark study of the area's extraordinarily dense concentration of early monuments. What gives this cluster a small additional curiosity is the evidence, recorded on the second edition of the Ordnance Survey map, that a fifth structure once existed to the west of the main group. Whether it disappeared through collapse, robbing of stone for field walls, or simply the slow absorption back into the landscape is not recorded, but its former presence suggests the settlement was once slightly larger than what survives today.