It is a corbelled drystone hut, meaning its walls were constructed by laying flat stones in gradually overlapping rings until they closed at the top, a technique that requires no cement and, when done well, can hold its shape for centuries. This one measures just under four metres across internally, stands about one and a half metres high, and has walls between roughly one and one and a half metres thick. Those dimensions suggest something built for shelter rather than habitation, compact and solid, more concerned with keeping weather out than with domestic comfort.

The site sits within the Corca Dhuibhne region of the Dingle Peninsula, an area with an unusually dense concentration of early and medieval field monuments. The hut was recorded in J. Cuppage's 1986 archaeological survey of the peninsula, a systematic effort to document the extraordinary range of structures, field systems, and monuments scattered across this part of west Kerry. Corbelled huts of this general type are associated across Ireland and Atlantic Europe with early medieval activity, though pinning a precise date to any individual example without excavation is difficult. The location, up in rough mountain pasture rather than in cultivated lowland, is consistent with use connected to transhumance, the seasonal movement of livestock to upland grazing, or with the kind of solitary enclosure associated with early Christian ascetic practice in the west of Ireland. Whether it served a herder, a hermit, or some other purpose entirely, the structure itself gives little away.