That much is certain. The specifics, the who, the when, the precise form the structure took, remain largely undocumented in any publicly accessible form.

Hut sites in Ireland range considerably in age and character. Some are the remains of early medieval booley huts, temporary dwellings used by those who practised transhumance, the seasonal movement of livestock to upland grazing. Others belong to prehistoric periods, their walls reduced to low stony banks barely distinguishable from the surrounding landscape. The townland name itself, Doire Mhór Thoir, is Irish and suggests a place once associated with a large oak wood to the east, doire being the word for an oak grove or wood, a reminder that Kerry's landscape was once far more heavily wooded than it appears today. Whether the hut site dates to a period when that woodland still stood, or came later, is not something that can be said with any confidence from what is currently known.