At Scarteen in County Kerry, a possible beehive hut, one of three such structures recorded in the area, had already been described as being in a state of collapse before a subsequent inspection found it was no longer visible at ground level at all. It had, in some sense, graduated from ruin to absence.

Beehive huts, known in Irish as clocháns, are dry-stone corbelled structures, built without mortar by stacking stones in overlapping rings that draw gradually inward until they meet at the top, forming a rough dome. They are associated with early medieval monastic and pastoral life in Ireland, and Kerry has an unusually high concentration of them, particularly in the south-west of the county. The Scarteen example sits within a field system, suggesting it was part of a working agricultural landscape rather than an isolated curiosity. Together with the two other possible huts recorded nearby, it hints at a small cluster of activity, though whether all three ever stood at the same time, and what exactly their function was, remains unclear. The qualification of "possible" attached to all three is telling; by the time they were being formally recorded, the physical evidence was already too fragmentary for certainty.

What remains at the site now is, by the available account, essentially nothing discernible from the surface. The field system surrounding it survives, but the hut itself has dissolved back into the ground.