The hut itself is modest to the point of near-invisibility: an internal diameter of 2.5 metres, walls no more than 0.5 metres high and 0.75 metres thick, and no discernible entrance surviving. Drystone construction, which uses carefully selected and arranged stones without mortar, was common across early Irish upland settlements, and structures like this one were typically associated with seasonal activity, shepherding, or transhumance, the old practice of moving livestock to higher ground in summer months. What remains here is poorly preserved, but the setting places it within a larger complex of hut sites scattered across the same ridge, some lying north of a tributary of the Behy river, others to its south.

The wider landscape gives the site a particular character. Coomnacronia Lake lies roughly 625 metres to the south-south-west, and a related hut complex sits around 520 metres to the south-west of that. Drung Hill rises to the north. On a clear day, the ridge affords views north-east down the valley past Curra Hill toward Dingle Bay, and east toward Seefin Mountain. These are not incidental details; upland sites of this kind were often positioned with a practical awareness of the terrain, the sight lines useful for watching grazing animals across a wide area. The rushes that now soften the ground and interrupt the view between huts were probably no part of the original calculus, but they give the site its present atmosphere of slow, vegetative reclamation.