It is easy to walk past without registering what it is. The remains measure roughly 3.2 metres east to west and 2.9 metres north to south, making the interior space intimate to the point of austerity. Parts of the surrounding drystone wall, built without mortar by fitting stones together under their own weight, still show upright slabs standing in place, suggesting something of the original construction technique even as the rest has tumbled and settled over time.

The structure is recorded as a hut site, a broad category that covers small domestic or temporary shelters found across the Irish landscape and dating to any number of periods, from the early medieval through to relatively recent centuries of marginal land use. This particular example sits in a hollow on a ridge running north-east to south-west, its position facing away from the prevailing shelter and towards Dunmanus Bay. The interior is now obscured by rubble and dense fern growth, which makes it difficult to read any surviving floor features or internal layout. The walls, where they survive, reach between 0.2 and 0.65 metres in height, and are about half a metre thick. That variation in height reflects the uneven way the structure has decayed rather than any original design difference. Whether it served as a seasonal shelter for people working the upland, a more permanent dwelling on marginal ground, or something else entirely, the available evidence does not say.