They are corbelled huts, meaning their walls were built by layering flat stones inward and upward in gradually tightening rings until the courses met at the top, producing a dry-stone beehive form that needs no mortar and no timber. The technique is ancient and practical, well suited to a landscape where both wood and shelter are scarce.

The two structures are circular in plan, each between 2.28 and 2.5 metres in diameter, standing about 1.4 metres high with walls roughly 1.35 metres thick. Those wall measurements are worth pausing over: the masonry is nearly as wide as the interior space is tall, which gives some sense of how much stone went into their construction and how seriously whoever built them took the question of keeping the weather out. The Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey, published in 1986 by J. Cuppage, recorded them as roughly constructed, suggesting these were functional shelters rather than anything ceremonial or prestige-driven. Cloichearaí sits within a part of Kerry that has an unusually dense concentration of early field systems, enclosures, and stone structures, many of them associated with early medieval or prehistoric pastoral activity on the higher ground.