It is a modest thing by any measure, just under four metres across and standing 1.8 metres high, built in the drystone tradition, meaning without mortar, relying entirely on the careful stacking and interlocking of stones to hold its form. What makes it quietly odd is the addition tucked against its north-eastern side: a sub-rectangular chamber, roughly two metres long, one metre wide, and less than a metre high, attached to the main structure like an afterthought, or perhaps a later practical addition.

The site was recorded as part of the Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey published by J. Cuppage in 1986 under the title 'Corca Dhuibhne', a comprehensive survey of the area then known in English as the Dingle Peninsula and in Irish as Corca Dhuibhne, a territory with deep roots in early medieval and prehistoric settlement. The structure has probably been considerably rebuilt at some point, which complicates any attempt to date it precisely or assign it a single period of use. Hut sites of this general type on the Dingle Peninsula range from prehistoric shelters to structures associated with summer grazing, the seasonal practice of moving livestock to upland pastures known in Irish tradition as booleying. The small attached chamber may have served as a storage space or animal pen, though without excavation that remains speculative.