What makes them worth pausing over is the scale: each structure had an average internal diameter of around three metres, which is barely enough room to lie down in comfort. These were not farmhouses or halls but minimal shelters, the kind of spaces built for seasonal use, for a herder following cattle to higher ground, or for someone who needed only four walls and a roof.

The huts are built in drystone, a technique requiring no mortar, relying instead on carefully chosen and stacked stones to hold their form. The walls survive just two to three courses high, so the original roofline is long gone, but the foundations are clear enough to read. Surrounding the hut cluster are old field boundaries, some of them marked by conspicuous upright stones at their entrances, suggesting that whatever activity took place here was organised, purposeful, and connected to the working of the land nearby. The grouping was recorded and documented as part of the archaeological survey of the Iveragh Peninsula compiled by A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan, published by Cork University Press in 1996, a survey that brought a great deal of south Kerry's less celebrated archaeology into the written record for the first time.