They are easy to overlook, modest in scale and ruinous in condition, yet their position relative to the caher beside them raises questions that their remaining stonework alone cannot fully answer. A caher is a type of early medieval stone enclosure, essentially a fortified farmstead defined by a substantial dry-stone wall, and these two hut sites lie just beyond its southeastern edge, suggesting they were once part of the same inhabited landscape, whether as ancillary shelters, working spaces, or accommodation for people or animals connected to the main enclosure.

Each structure is circular in plan, with an average internal diameter of around 2.5 metres, which is compact even by the standards of early Irish vernacular building. That modest footprint places them at the smaller end of what survives from this period, more consistent with a functional outbuilding than a principal dwelling. Their location at Macha Ghrianáin, a placename with resonances in Irish that connect it to a sunny or favoured high place, hints at a site chosen with some care, though the structures themselves now survive only as dilapidated stone remains. The archaeological survey of the Iveragh Peninsula, compiled by A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan and published by Cork University Press in 1996, recorded them as part of a broader effort to document the extraordinary concentration of early monuments across this corner of south Kerry.