They are corbelled drystone huts, built without mortar, with each course of stone laid so that it slightly overhangs the one below until the walls eventually close over the interior, forming a self-supporting roof. One is circular, roughly 3.25 metres in diameter; the other is oval, measuring approximately 2.5 by 2.2 metres. The taller stands only 1.6 metres high, the smaller just a metre. They are separated by 15 to 20 metres, and both abut the western side of a field wall, suggesting they were once integrated into some kind of working agricultural or pastoral landscape.

Structures of this type are relatively common along the Dingle Peninsula, where the tradition of corbelled drystone building stretches back into early medieval Ireland and possibly earlier. They are sometimes associated with seasonal occupation, with sheltering animals or people during summer grazing on upland pasture, or with monastic or hermitic settlement in more remote terrain. The proximity to Mount Eagle, a ridge that dominates the western end of the peninsula, places these huts in a landscape long shaped by both farming and early Christian activity. They were recorded in the 1986 Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey compiled by J. Cuppage, a comprehensive survey of the Dingle Peninsula that catalogued the remarkable density of prehistoric and early historic monuments in the area.