One is subcircular in plan, the other rectangular, and both were built using some notably large facing stones, which lends them a solidity that seems at odds with their modest scale. The rectangular hut measures just 3.7 metres by 2.4 metres, barely the footprint of a garden shed, yet the construction effort implied by those substantial stones suggests something more considered than a casual shelter.

What makes the site quietly puzzling is that, despite the effort involved, both huts may be relatively recent in origin rather than ancient, placing them in an awkward zone between archaeology and vernacular history. To the north-west, remnants of what appears to be an enclosing wall survive, hinting that the two structures once formed part of a small compound rather than standing alone. The place may correspond to a site recorded as Liosachán in Breandán Ó Cíobháin's 1978 topographical study of the area, a name that carries the sense of a small lios, the Irish term for a ringfort or enclosed settlement, though the diminutive suffix softens it to something more like "little enclosure". Whether the name preserves a memory of an earlier, more ancient use of the ground, or simply refers to this modest complex of walls, is not clear. A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan documented the site in their archaeological survey of the Iveragh Peninsula, published by Cork University Press in 1996, and that remains the primary record of what is here.