The grouping is enclosed, which gives it a coherence that suggests these were not random shelters but part of a considered arrangement, however modest in scale.

The site was documented by archaeologists A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan in their 1996 survey of the Iveragh Peninsula, published by Cork University Press. Three huts are clearly identifiable; a fourth is suggested by a mound of stone collapse nearby, the kind of slow subsidence that happens when corbelled or dry-stone walling gradually surrenders to gravity and weather over centuries. The arc of walling functioning as a sheepfold points to the site having a pastoral life at some point, whether that overlapped with the original occupation of the huts or came later is not recorded. The hut cluster lies roughly 70 metres east of a related monument, suggesting this corner of Canburrin was once a busier place than it now appears.