Whoever built sheepfolds here chose the same spots that prehistoric people had already chosen, and in doing so obscured the earlier structures just enough to make them ambiguous, layering one era of upland life directly on top of another.

The two hut sites form part of a loose cluster on the slope, sitting 27 metres south of a third related site nearby. Hut sites of this kind are the remains of simple circular dwellings, their walls built from stone and their interiors small enough that the word "hut" is not quite a diminishment. The more easterly of the pair is the smaller, with a diameter of around 3 metres and a wall thickness of roughly 0.6 metres. Its neighbour is slightly larger, at 3.8 metres across and with walls approximately 0.66 metres wide. That larger example preserves what may be an entrance, facing downslope to the west and measuring 0.58 metres in width, a detail that speaks to deliberate orientation rather than accident. Michael Connolly, writing in his 2008 doctoral thesis on the prehistoric settlement of the Lee Valley for University College Cork, placed these sites within a broader landscape perspective, treating the uplands around Tralee not as empty margins but as a terrain that prehistoric communities actively inhabited and understood.

What makes the pair quietly telling is less any single feature than the combination of things: the shared aspect and views they hold with the nearby third site, the near-identical construction approach across all of them, and the fact that later farmers recognised something useful in the same locations. The peat that now partly covers the foundations has preserved the proportions well enough that wall widths can still be measured to the centimetre, which is more than many such sites can offer.