They are corbelled huts, meaning their walls curve inward and upward, each course of dry stone slightly overlapping the last until the opening narrows to a close, without mortar and without any timber roof frame. It is an ancient building technique found at several points along the Dingle Peninsula, and on a hillside this exposed, the logic of it becomes immediately apparent.

The two structures differ slightly in form. The first is sub-rectangular in plan, measuring roughly 2.5 by 2.28 metres across the interior, and standing to a height of about 1.65 metres, with walls between 0.9 and 1.5 metres thick. The second is circular, with a similar diameter of around 2.28 to 2.5 metres but slightly lower, at approximately 1.4 metres high, and with walls roughly 1.35 metres thick throughout. Both are described as roughly constructed, which sets them apart from the more carefully dressed clocháns associated with early Christian monastic sites elsewhere on the peninsula. Who built them, and when, is not recorded. They appear in J. Cuppage's 1986 archaeological survey of the Corca Dhuibhne area, which catalogued the extraordinary density of ancient remains across this part of west Kerry, but the huts themselves carry no attached history beyond their physical dimensions and their position on the hillside.