A univallate rath, meaning a ringfort enclosed by a single bank and ditch, would typically shelter a farmstead or small household; finding this many distinct hut structures within one enclosure suggests something considerably more crowded, or at least more active over a longer period, than the single-family homestead these sites usually represent.

The huts vary considerably in their state of survival and in what can still be read from the ground. One, flanking the north-western entrance gap, may once have been a circular structure whose wall was later sliced through when the gap was cut or widened; its interior would have measured roughly 3.9 by 3.5 metres. A second, built directly against the ringfort bank to the south-east, survives to only half a metre in height and only on its south-eastern arc. The largest, in the southern sector, measures around 6.4 by 6 metres internally, though its wall has collapsed into a low mound and its floor sits below the surrounding ground level, giving it a slightly sunken quality that is still perceptible. Two further huts to the east appear to have been conjoined, their shared wall and layout now too disturbed to measure precisely. Then there are the vanished features. John Windele, writing in 1838, described caves in the interior reached from beneath a stone-covered gallery. Thomas Johnson Westropp noted souterrains, the term for the stone-lined underground passages associated with early medieval settlement in Ireland, as late as 1897. Neither observer's underground passages are visible today, which raises the question of what has shifted or collapsed in the intervening century and more.