The site at Cahereighterrush is recorded as a clochan, the Irish term for a dry-stone beehive hut, a corbelled structure built without mortar by laying stones in overlapping rings until they close at the top. These small, rounded cells were used across early medieval Ireland, particularly in monastic and coastal settings in the west, and the Iveragh Peninsula retains a remarkable concentration of them in various states of survival. At Cahereighterrush, survival has been modest at best.

The only named source connected to this site is a certain Lecky, cited in the archaeological literature as having referred to 'cloghans' here. A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan, compiling their survey of South Kerry's archaeology for Cork University Press in 1996, noted that the loose spreads of stone visible nearby may represent the collapsed remains of the structures Lecky had in mind. The phrasing is cautious and deliberately so. What lies on the ground is suggestive rather than conclusive, a pattern of displaced stone that invites interpretation without quite confirming it.