The two structures are modest in scale, measuring roughly 4.2 metres and 4 by 2.5 metres across, with surviving wall heights of 1.6 metres and 0.5 metres respectively. What makes the site quietly puzzling is not the huts themselves but a partly sunken, lintelled chamber that abuts the southern side of the larger structure. A lintelled chamber of this kind, covered with flat stones laid horizontally across the top, tends to raise immediate questions about purpose and age.

In 1899, the archaeologist R.A.S. Macalister identified that underground chamber as a souterrain, the term for a man-made underground passage or cellar found at many early medieval Irish sites, often associated with storage or refuge. It is a reasonable instinct; souterrains are not uncommon on the Dingle Peninsula, and the lintelled construction fits the type. Later assessment, however, suggests a more prosaic explanation: the chamber was most probably used as a sheep-shelter, a functional enclosure sunk into the hillside to give animals some protection from the Atlantic weather that scours this part of west Kerry. The distinction matters, because it shifts the site from the category of early medieval settlement feature to something more likely connected with pastoral farming of a much less determinate date. Both readings remain available, and neither has been definitively settled.