It measures just 2.2 metres east to west and 1.6 metres north to south, its floor level but buried under rubble, its walls reduced to the lowest surviving courses of collapsed drystone construction. Drystone building uses no mortar, relying entirely on the careful stacking and interlocking of stone, and what remains here is roughly made rather than finely crafted, suggesting a functional rather than prestigious use. The walls still stand to about 0.6 metres in height and run to around 0.55 metres thick.

What makes the site quietly interesting is not the hut itself but its company. Roughly 25 metres to the north-west lies an enclosure, a bounded area whose purpose, whether for livestock, cultivation, or some form of domestic organisation, is not recorded. Approximately 15 metres to the south-west sits another hut site of the same general character. The clustering of these features across a short stretch of upland ground suggests a pattern of small-scale habitation or seasonal land use rather than any single isolated episode. This kind of upland grouping, a hut or two alongside a walled enclosure, is associated in Ireland with booley farming, the practice of moving livestock to higher pastures in summer months, though the specific date or use of this particular cluster has not been established. The location on the north-facing slopes of the Reeks, in rough pasture beside a river, fits that general pattern without confirming it.