The larger of the two measures just two metres in diameter, which gives some sense of the scale of life, or at least shelter, that these walls once contained.

Drystone hut sites of this kind, built without mortar, are found across upland Kerry, often associated with transhumance, the seasonal movement of people and livestock to summer grazing grounds, or with the everyday working life of hill farmers over many centuries. What makes this particular example quietly notable is its relationship with its neighbour. The northern arc of this hut abuts the southern arc of a second structure, suggesting the two were either built in close sequence or deliberately positioned to share something, a wall, a windbreak, a boundary. The site looks out over the valley of the Owbaun River to the south-east, a positioning that is practical as much as anything else, offering a wide view of the lower ground while the ridge itself provides some shelter from the prevailing weather. The walls, now collapsed to around half a metre in height and roughly the same in thickness, have settled back into the landscape so thoroughly that they read more as earthworks than architecture.