What makes them worth a second look is not their size but their construction: both are built in corbelled drystone technique, a method in which flat stones are laid in overlapping courses, each one projecting slightly inward over the one below, until the walls close overhead without the need for mortar or timber. The two huts are conjoined, set on a stone-revetted terrace, meaning the builders cut into the slope and lined it with stone to create a level platform, an arrangement that suggests some deliberate effort and permanence.

The larger of the two huts is roughly circular, measuring around 4.6 metres by 4.5 metres internally, which is a reasonably substantial interior by the standards of this kind of structure. Its entrance is thought to face east, though so much stone has collapsed inward that the opening is difficult to identify with confidence. A narrow lintelled passage, just 0.7 metres wide, connects it to the smaller subcircular hut to the west, though rubble now blocks the western end of that passage. Immediately to the east, a separate rectangular hut was recorded, considered likely to be a later addition, suggesting the site saw use across more than one period. The full complex, along with the traces of old field boundaries nearby, points to a landscape that was once actively managed and inhabited at an altitude that would now feel quite remote. The site was documented by archaeologists Aidan O'Sullivan and Jerry Sheehan in their 1996 survey of the Iveragh peninsula, a comprehensive record of the archaeological landscape of south Kerry.