It is easy to miss, and easier still to dismiss as a scatter of field stones, but the dimensions and arrangement tell a different story. This is a drystone hut, built without mortar by laying stone upon stone, roughly three and a half metres across and still standing to around eighty centimetres in height, with walls about a metre thick. An entrance on the eastern side, less than a metre wide, survives amid the general collapse.

Structures of this kind are found across the upland margins of Kerry and the wider west of Ireland, and they speak to patterns of seasonal or marginal occupation that stretch back, in various forms, across many centuries. Whoever used this hut on An Seanchnoc, meaning roughly "the old hill" in Irish, left no record beyond the stones themselves. The interior is now largely filled with collapsed walling, which has also spread to press against the outer face of the wall. The survey compiled by A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan for their archaeological study of the Iveragh Peninsula, published by Cork University Press in 1996, recorded the structure in this condition, much overgrown and fairly ruined, which suggests it had already been long out of use by the time anyone thought to document it formally.