It measures roughly five metres at its widest, and aside from a single angled corner of drystone masonry still standing to about 77 centimetres at the northeast, the interior is largely a spread of collapsed stone. It is not a dramatic ruin. What makes it quietly compelling is its context: this is the northernmost island of the Blasket group, four miles off the western tip of the Dingle Peninsula, ringed entirely by sea-cliffs, and the northern half of the island shows no evidence of human settlement at all. Whoever shaped this platform and raised these walls chose one of the more exposed and inaccessible positions on the Irish coast to do so.

Inis Tuaisceart covers 241 acres and rises to around 573 feet at its highest point. The southern half holds a small field system, and it is within this system that an Early Christian settlement associated with St. Brendan is located. The hut-site sits against the western edge of an old field boundary running northeast to southwest, a boundary that also skirts a nearby circular hut-site roughly 4.7 metres in diameter internally. That second structure survives a little better, its ruined wall built from a combination of drystone masonry, upright slabs, and two large prostrate slabs measuring 2.8 and 3 metres in length. A further field boundary to the south of the structures may once have enclosed a forecourt or yard. The survey of the Dingle Peninsula by J. Cuppage, published in 1986, recorded these details as part of a broader documentation of the Corca Dhuibhne region, and they remain among the more precise accounts we have of what survives here. The land is generally rocky with thin soil cover, and the physical evidence of settlement is accordingly fragile, reduced over centuries to corners, slabs, and the faint geometry of old boundaries in the grass.