What makes them quietly arresting is less their scale than their construction: drystone walling, meaning stonework laid without mortar, shaped into forms that have held their outline across centuries without any binding agent beyond careful placement and gravity.

The two structures are conjoined, sharing a wall between them. The first is roughly circular, with a diameter of between two and 2.6 metres, and retains a small niche in its western wall. It abuts the eastern side of the second structure, which is larger and takes a different approach to its architecture: rather than freestanding walling on all sides, it is built against the south-eastern face of a natural rock outcrop, using the existing stone as part of its fabric. This second structure measures three by 2.5 metres, stands 1.75 metres high, and has walls a metre thick. Its entrance, oriented to the east-south-east, is lintelled, meaning it is spanned by a single horizontal stone across the top, and measures just 55 centimetres high by 80 centimetres wide, low enough to require stooping. A substantial recess cut into the south-western wall, measuring 1.5 by 1.1 metres and 80 centimetres high, may have served as a shelf or sleeping space. The structures were documented in J. Cuppage's 1986 archaeological survey of the Corca Dhuibhne peninsula, which remains the principal source for the Dingle uplands' dense scatter of early remains.