These are clocháin, the singular dry-stone corbelled huts associated with early medieval settlement and monastic life along the Atlantic fringe of Ireland, built without mortar and relying on carefully overlapping stone courses to keep out the Atlantic weather. What survives here measures roughly 4.2 metres and 4 metres in diameter, with wall height now reduced to just 0.4 metres above the ground, the rest long since collapsed or robbed out for field walls and farmsteads lower down the valley.

The site sits in Gleann Fán, a valley on the Dingle Peninsula whose slopes were clearly more densely settled in the past than their present quiet state suggests. A third clochaun, positioned some 15 to 20 metres to the south at the junction of three field walls, was recorded on the Ordnance Survey maps and noted by the archaeologist R.A.S. Macalister in 1899. The confluence of the hut with three converging field boundaries is a small but telling detail; it suggests a working landscape organised around these structures rather than a scattering of isolated shelters. Macalister's observation, published in 1899, places the site within a long tradition of antiquarian attention to the Dingle Peninsula, a stretch of coastline that has produced an unusually concentrated cluster of early Christian and prehistoric remains.