This is the kind of site that rewards patience rather than spectacle: the remains of an ancient hut, and possibly a second one close by, sitting on a landscape that has accumulated centuries of use and abandonment without making much fuss about either.

About two metres to the north-west of the principal hut site, the semicircular bank may represent the foundations of a companion structure. Hut sites of this kind are typically the surviving traces of early settlement, the stone or earthen footings of simple circular or oval dwellings that housed farming communities across early medieval Ireland. The Iveragh Peninsula is unusually dense with such remains, its comparative remoteness having protected features that were ploughed or quarried away elsewhere. The site at Tinnies holds a preservation order dating to 1938, one of the earlier applications of legislative protection to a monument of this type in Kerry, which suggests it was recognised as significant at a time when such designations were still relatively uncommon.