They are modest in scale, each barely large enough for a person to stretch out in, and yet they represent a peculiarly intimate form of early habitation, built into the interior defences of a promontory fort and sharing walls in a row that follows the line of the cliffs.

The site sits within the area known as Monacarroge, or Móin na Caróige in Irish, a name drawn from the adjacent field rather than from any formal designation. A promontory fort is a type of coastal enclosure in which natural cliff edges do much of the defensive work, with earthen banks and ditches completing the circuit on the landward side. Here, the bank running along the eastern cliff edge has been put to double use, serving simultaneously as a boundary of the fort and as the back wall for the four huts. Their internal dimensions range from 3.4 by 1.9 metres down to 2.6 by 1.5 metres, and the enclosing banks, which average between one and 1.7 metres in width, stand slightly higher on the interior than the exterior, around 0.3 metres on the outside. Entrance gaps appear at one or other end of the western walls in each case. The antiquarian T. J. Westropp noted the site as early as 1910, referring to it by the name of the neighbouring field. The structural detail draws on J. Cuppage's 1986 archaeological survey of the Dingle Peninsula, the Corca Dhuibhne survey, which remains a foundational document for the region's early monuments.