The site carries the name Clochán na nÓgh, and its most immediately striking quality is the way its builders worked with the landscape rather than against it. Two of the three structures incorporate large natural rock outcrops directly into their walls, treating the mountain itself as a kind of ready-made masonry. This is not unusual in early Irish vernacular building, but to see it done so deliberately across multiple structures on a single hillside gives the place an oddly considered quality.

A clochán is a small dry-stone building, typically beehive-shaped or corbelled, associated with early Christian monasticism and secular settlement alike along the west Kerry coast, and the Dingle Peninsula has one of the densest concentrations of them anywhere in Ireland. The three structures here were recorded and described by J. Cuppage in the 1986 Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey of the peninsula. The largest is a D-shaped enclosure, roughly 4.6 by 2 metres across and standing 1.3 metres high, built against a very large outcrop that forms part of its wall. A second, smaller D-shaped structure nearby, around 3.1 metres in diameter, does the same with its straight eastern wall. The third, a little downhill to the south, is oval in plan with corbelled dry-stone construction and measures roughly 2.1 to 2.25 metres across. At ground level inside this smallest structure there is a small niche set into the wall, the kind of detail that suggests deliberate domestic or ritual use rather than simple shelter. All three stand just over a metre in height, low enough that they would be easy to miss from any distance on open ground.