It is a corbelled drystone hut, the kind of building raised by stacking flat stones in gradually inward-leaning courses until the walls close overhead, creating a dry interior from nothing but carefully chosen rock and patience. This particular example measures between 2.75 and 3.5 metres across, stands 1.7 metres high, and has walls between 1.2 and 1.35 metres thick, which is to say the walls account for nearly as much of the overall diameter as the interior space itself.

The site sits within Corca Dhuibhne, the Dingle Peninsula, a landscape that holds one of the densest concentrations of early medieval and prehistoric field monuments in Ireland. Structures like this one are difficult to date with precision in the absence of excavation, but corbelled huts of this type are generally associated with early Christian-period activity in Kerry, sometimes linked to monastic or pastoral use in upland areas. The specific location, clinging to a steep mountainside above one of the most dramatic mountain passes in Munster, suggests use by someone who needed shelter at altitude, whether a shepherd, a pilgrim moving along old routes, or someone whose purpose the landscape alone cannot tell us. The structure was recorded as part of J. Cuppage's 1986 archaeological survey of the Dingle Peninsula, a thorough catalogue of the extraordinary density of ancient remains across Corca Dhuibhne.