What makes them quietly arresting is not their size, which is modest, but the combination of drystone construction, careful placement beside a water source, and the remnants of an old field system to the south that suggests this was once a working corner of a mountain, organised and inhabited.

Drystone construction, that is, walling built without mortar and relying entirely on the careful placement of stone, is one of the oldest building techniques in Ireland, and examples survive across the country in varying states of collapse. At Kimego, the northern of the two huts is the better preserved, measuring 3.7 metres by 2.6 metres externally, with walls surviving to a height of around 0.4 metres and a thickness of roughly 0.45 metres. The southern hut has fared less well; only its southern and western walls remain. The western wall, built against a low artificial scarp cut into the hillside, stands 0.55 metres high and runs 1.9 metres in length, while the southern wall extends to 2.23 metres. The field system to the south may have been associated with the huts, though the precise relationship between them has not been firmly established. The site was documented by A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan in their 1996 archaeological survey of the Iveragh Peninsula, published by Cork University Press.