They are modest things by any measure, the largest just 3.4 by 1.9 metres internally, but their arrangement is quietly telling. Each shares the same east-facing cliff bank as its back wall, their entrances cut into the west walls at one end or the other, and together they line up along the inner defence of a promontory fort in a way that suggests deliberate, communal use of what must already have been a confined and wind-exposed space.

A promontory fort is essentially a stretch of coastline made defensible by throwing up earthworks across the neck of land where the headland meets the mainland, letting the sea do the work on the remaining sides. At this site, known as Monacarroge or Móin na Caróige, a name taken from the adjacent field rather than from any grander designation, the interior bank skirting the cliff edge does double duty as the rear wall of the four huts. Their enclosing banks are low, averaging between one and 1.7 metres in width and only around 0.3 metres in height on the outer face, slightly higher on the inner. The antiquarian T. J. Westropp noted the site in 1910, referring to it by that field name. A more detailed account appeared in J. Cuppage's archaeological survey of the Corca Dhuibhne region, published in 1986, which remains the principal source for the site's recorded dimensions and layout.