One of them has been subdivided inside and pressed back into service as a sheep-shelter, which is either a sign of continuity or simply of pragmatism, depending on your outlook. The site is known as Clochán Ais, and what makes it quietly remarkable is not any single building but the density of the group and the variety of forms packed into a small area.

A clochán is a corbelled dry-stone hut, built without mortar, with each course of stone slightly overlapping the one below until the walls close into a dome or a roof. They are found across the Dingle Peninsula in some numbers, many associated with early Christian monasticism, though not all can be dated with confidence. At Clochán Ais, the northernmost structure is circular, with an entrance gap facing east and a small oval annex, just 1.3 by 1.1 metres, opening off its north-western side. Abutting it to the south-east are three small chambers, varying in plan from circular to sub-rectangular to sub-circular, the largest measuring 1.8 metres internally. A little further south sits a narrow rectangular structure, only 2.5 by 0.9 metres and just 0.6 metres high, and beyond that a second corbelled hut, better preserved at 1.75 metres in height, with a lintelled entrance opening south-eastward into a small forecourt. The description of the complex was compiled by J. Cuppage as part of the Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey published in 1986, a systematic effort to document the remarkable concentration of early monuments across the peninsula.

The site sits in working farmland rather than a managed heritage area, and the approach follows the western bank of the Glanfahan river. The structures are low and, given the surrounding rough pasture, easy to overlook until you are almost upon them. The forecourt of the southern clochán and the spatial logic connecting the various chambers reward careful attention, suggesting something more organised than casual field clearance or ad hoc shelter building.