That gradual disappearance is itself part of what makes the site quietly remarkable: structures that once sheltered people have been steadily swallowed by the accumulated effort of later generations clearing the same land.

When the antiquarian George Victor Du Noyer visited in 1858, he recorded the pair in enough detail to understand their layout. One hut was circular, the other D-shaped in plan, and the two were connected by a lintelled communicating passage, with a separate entrance opening outward from the circular hut. The construction method was corbelling, a technique in which courses of drystone are laid so that each projects slightly inward over the one below, eventually meeting at the top without any mortar or keystone. It is the same principle used in the famous beehive huts found elsewhere on the Dingle Peninsula. Du Noyer recorded internal diameters of roughly 5.5 metres for the circular hut and approximately 5.5 by 4.26 metres for its D-shaped companion. Forty years later, in 1899, the archaeologist R.A.S. Macalister recorded not two but three huts at the site, suggesting either a third structure has since been lost to view entirely, or that the two scholars were reading the remains differently.