When it was recorded in 2000, the lower courses of its drystone wall were still just visible, protruding through a shallow covering of grass and peat, the rubble of its upper courses scattered around the outside. By 2007, it was gone entirely, not lost to further decay but to reclamation: the land had been reseeded, and whatever remained of the walls was buried or cleared in the process. It is, in a quiet way, a double disappearance.

The structure measured roughly 4.4 metres east to west and 2.9 metres north to south, with a wall that had once stood to a surviving height of about 0.4 metres and a thickness of 0.85 metres. There was an entrance break on the south-east side, which is a common feature of early hut sites and often positioned to reduce exposure to prevailing winds. The site sat within a network of relict field boundaries, the ghostly outlines of an agricultural landscape that had long since gone out of use. Drystone construction of this kind, walls built without mortar by carefully selecting and stacking stones, was the dominant building technique across early rural Ireland, and structures like this one dot the uplands and boglands of south-west Kerry in various states of survival. What made this particular example notable was precisely its fragility: only the lowest courses remained in 2000, half-buried and grass-covered, already more impression than structure.