There are six of them in total, and the puzzle lies in what they actually are. Four appear to be straightforward sheep-pens, but two are circular in form, measuring three metres and three and a half metres in diameter and standing to a height of nearly two metres. These proportions, modest but deliberate, suggest something older beneath the agricultural reuse.

The two circular structures are catalogued as possible hut-sites, a term that covers a broad range of early or pre-modern dwelling places whose original function has become difficult to separate from later use. In this case, both have been modified as sheep-folds at some point, which is a common fate for older stone enclosures on working hill land. Farmers have always been pragmatic about inherited stonework, and a circular wall that once sheltered a person will shelter a sheep just as well. The site was recorded as part of J. Cuppage's 1986 archaeological survey of the Dingle Peninsula, the Corca Dhuibhne survey, which catalogued the extraordinary density of archaeological remains across that part of Kerry. Whether the hut-sites date to the early medieval period or earlier is not established, but circular stone structures of this kind are found throughout the Irish uplands and frequently belong to periods long before the consolidation of settled farming.

The site lies in open hill country west of the pass, which means the approach involves some walking across unenclosed ground. The structures are low and built from local stone, so they read as part of the hillside rather than standing out against it, the kind of thing that becomes visible gradually once the eye learns to look for the geometry of a curved wall among the natural scatter of rock.