Each interior contained an entrance to what appears to be a souterrain, an artificially constructed underground passage or chamber, typically built during the early medieval period and used for storage, refuge, or both. The pairing of these underground openings with the huts above them suggests a settlement where access to concealed space was deliberately built into the domestic architecture from the start.

The huts sit within or adjacent to a caher, a dry-stone ringfort of the kind found across the west of Ireland, built to enclose and protect a farmstead. Roughly 23 metres to the south of the caher, a boulder survives with what have been described as sharpening scores on its surface, grooves worn into the stone by repeated blade-honing over time. It is a quietly telling detail: the kind of mark left not by ceremony but by ordinary, repetitive work. The site was documented by A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan in their 1996 archaeological survey of South Kerry, published by Cork University Press, which remains one of the more thorough regional surveys of its kind for the area.