It measures just 4.2 metres in diameter, its walls long since collapsed, the drystone fabric settling into the ground to a height of around 0.4 metres and a thickness of 0.8 metres. Drystone construction, meaning mortarless walling built from carefully fitted stones without any binding material, was the dominant technique for vernacular building across Ireland for millennia, and what remains here is typical of how such structures weather over time: not a ruin in the dramatic sense, but a quiet subsidence back into the hillside.

What gives this particular site a small degree of architectural interest is the way it was adapted to its terrain. The eastern portion of the interior was cut into the rising slope, while the western side was left raised, the two adjustments together producing a roughly level floor inside a structure built on ground that was anything but level. It is a practical solution, and an old one, found in hut sites across upland Ireland wherever people needed a workable interior space on a hillside. Loose stones scattered to the north-west of the structure suggest there may have been additional material here at some point, though whether that represents a collapsed outwork, a field clearance, or simply the debris of decay is not clear from what survives.