It measures roughly two and a half metres by one and a half, barely large enough for a single person to lie down inside. Yet the care in its construction is legible even now: the walls, built in drystone corbelled technique, survive to nearly a metre in height, with low upright stones, known as orthostats, forming part of the base of the inner face. Corbelling is a method in which each course of stone projects slightly inward over the one below, allowing a roof to be formed without mortar or timber, a technique found across the Dingle Peninsula in structures ranging from early medieval beehive huts to field shelters of much more recent date.

The site sits within one of the most archaeologically dense stretches of Ireland, the Corca Dhuibhne region of the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry, where prehistoric field systems, promontory forts, ogham stones, and early Christian remains accumulate in remarkable concentration. The precise date of this particular structure is not recorded, and small corbelled huts of this kind are notoriously difficult to assign to a specific period without excavation. What the dimensions and construction do suggest is a purpose built for temporary or specialised use, perhaps by a herdsman working summer pasture on the high ground, a practice known in Ireland as booleying, in which cattle and their attendants moved to upland grazing for part of the year. The description of the site was first published in J. Cuppage's 1986 Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey, a systematic effort to document the extraordinary density of remains across this part of Kerry.