The western wall of this clochan is not built at all; it is a natural rock outcrop that an early builder simply incorporated into the design, letting the landscape do part of the work. The result is a D-shaped cell, barely two metres across its east-west axis, with the flat side of the D formed by the land itself.

A clochan is a drystone beehive hut, a form of construction associated with early medieval Ireland and particularly with monastic and hermitic settlement in the west of the country. They are built without mortar, relying instead on the careful overlapping of stones in a corbelled technique, where each course projects slightly inward over the one below until the courses meet at the top. Here, the corbelled roof survives over the southern portion of the structure, still standing to a height of 1.6 metres, with the drystone walls reaching the same height and running to a thickness of 0.7 metres. The narrow entrance, just 0.7 metres wide, faces north. Immediately to the northeast lies a separate hut site, suggesting this was not a solitary structure but part of a small cluster of occupation, set into blanket bog and rough hill pasture with the glen falling away below.