The structure is now so heavily covered in sod that it reads more as a low mound than a building, its walls reduced to roughly sixty centimetres in height, though the wall thickness of over a metre and a half suggests they were once considerably more substantial. What survives is drystone construction, meaning the walls were built without mortar, and the interior was lined with upright slabs set against the inner faces. The whole thing measures approximately 6.7 metres by 4 metres, which is modest by any standard, the kind of space that would have served one or two people working the land rather than a settled household.

Close by, two small rectangular outlines in the ground may be the footprints of turf-drying racks, which would have been used to stack and air cut turf before it was dry enough to burn as fuel. A collapsed structure with a lintelled entrance and a rougher enclosure built directly against a rock-face also survive nearby, though these are considered more likely to have sheltered animals than people. Taken together, the cluster of features points towards a seasonal or working landscape, a place used during summer grazing or turf-cutting rather than year-round habitation. The Iveragh Peninsula has many such sites scattered across its upland bogs, remnants of an agricultural economy that made intensive use of terrain that now appears marginal or simply wild.