Easy to miss, easy to dismiss as a field boundary gone wrong, it is in fact the remains of a roughly circular drystone hut, and it did not stand alone. Fourteen metres to the south, a second hut site survives, and some two hundred metres to the south-west lies a separate enclosure. Whatever activity once occupied this exposed terrace, it left traces in at least three directions.

The hut itself is modest by any measure: roughly four and a half metres north to south, four metres east to west, its walls of unmortared stone now collapsed and moss-covered, standing no more than half a metre high. Drystone construction, which relies entirely on the careful fitting of stones without binding material, can survive for centuries in this form, gradually sinking into the landscape as the courses shift and vegetation takes hold. The southern arc of the wall is the best preserved section. At the north-east, a gap of around seventy centimetres may indicate where the entrance once was. Pressed against the outside of the wall on the north-west side is a small square annexe, only about one and a half metres across, its own walls now barely visible above ground level. The interior of the hut is level but obscured by overgrowth, so the floor surface and any internal features remain hidden. The structure looks north over Sliabh Luachra, the upland region straddling Kerry and Cork whose name, meaning "the rushy mountain", speaks to the wet, boggy character of this kind of terrain.