That they survive at all is partly because one of them has been absorbed into a later enclosure, its ancient fabric hidden beneath a more recent kidney-shaped boundary. The other, some 40 metres to the northwest, stands independently but barely: a ring of drystone walling, the technique of fitting stones together without mortar, survives to just 20 centimetres in height across an enclosed area of roughly 2.5 metres in diameter.

These are the kind of remains that demand patience to read. The first hut, the smaller and more exposed of the two, retains walling about half a metre wide, set in rough courses with some upright stones still in position, with loose rubble scattered across the interior. The second, overlain by the modern enclosure, is almost entirely obscured; only at the southern side does the original fabric emerge, where the wall is faced on both sides and rises to 70 centimetres externally, and reaches a considerable 1.5 metres in width, suggesting something more substantial was once here. Both sites were recorded and described by A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan in their 1996 archaeological survey of the Iveragh Peninsula, published by Cork University Press, which catalogued the dense scatter of early remains across this part of South Kerry.

The Iveragh Peninsula, better known today as the Ring of Kerry, contains an unusually high concentration of early medieval and prehistoric field monuments, and sites like these, modest and unannounced, are easy to walk past without recognising what they represent: the footprint, almost literally, of a life lived in a very small space.