Beneath it, the oval foundations of a drystone hut survive, the later agricultural structure having been built over or around the earlier one with the unsentimental practicality that characterises so much of the Irish upland landscape. The two uses of the same ground, separated by an unknown span of time, have ended up occupying the same few square metres.

The hut itself is of drystone construction, meaning its walls were built without mortar, using carefully selected and stacked stone. Oval-plan huts of this kind appear throughout the Iveragh Peninsula, the great south-western finger of Kerry that includes the Ring of Kerry, and they range in date from prehistoric to early medieval periods, though placing any individual example precisely without excavation is difficult. A wall chamber at the north-western side of this particular structure may be a secondary addition, built after the main hut was already in use or possibly already abandoned, suggesting the site had more than one phase of activity. A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan documented it as part of a wider archaeological survey of South Kerry published by Cork University Press in 1996, one of hundreds of such sites catalogued across the peninsula.