These are hut sites, the scooped-out footprints of structures whose builders cut into the slope on one side and piled the spoil into a low enclosing bank on the other. It is a simple, practical technique, using the hillside itself as both windbreak and foundation, and it left marks on the ground that have lasted long enough to still be legible today.

The promontory here, known as Doonmore (An Dún Mór) and Doonbeg (An Dún Beag), projects south-east into Dingle Bay on the western side of the entrance to Trabeg. Four of the hut sites are clustered together near the cliff edge to the south-west, with a fifth sitting separately near the south side of Coosgorm. In total, they range in diameter from three to five and a half metres, small enough to suggest individual shelters rather than communal spaces. The sites were recorded and described by J. Cuppage in the 1986 Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey, a volume published under the Irish title Corca Dhuibhne by Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne in Ballyferriter, which remains one of the most thorough regional surveys of its kind for this part of Ireland.

What makes the grouping quietly compelling is the location itself. Perching structures so close to a cliff edge on an exposed Atlantic promontory implies either a deliberate choice of vantage, a concern with defensibility, or simply the pragmatic use of whatever flat or semi-flat ground the headland offered. The low banks survive as gentle earthworks rather than dramatic walls, and the depressions read more as absences in the turf than as obvious architecture. That is precisely what makes them worth attention: the restraint of the remains, and the questions they leave open about who sheltered here, and when.