It is a modest thing by any measure, roughly oval in plan, the walls surviving to only about ninety centimetres in height. Yet those dimensions, an internal space of just 3.32 metres by 2.6 metres, with wall thickness ranging from 1.4 to 2.5 metres, tell a specific story about how a person, or a small group, once sheltered on the Dingle Peninsula's upland terrain.

The structure is recorded as a possible hut site, the qualification doing real work here. Drystone construction, where stones are carefully stacked without mortar, was used across many centuries and for many purposes in Ireland, from field boundaries to booley huts used seasonally by those moving livestock to summer pasture. Without dateable finds or excavation, it is genuinely difficult to say whether this enclosure belongs to the early medieval period, to the post-medieval practice of transhumance, or to something else entirely. What the archaeology of Corca Dhuibhne, the Dingle Peninsula, does make clear is that these slopes were used and reused by people across a very long span of time. The site was documented by J. Cuppage as part of a 1986 archaeological survey of the peninsula, a landmark study of one of the most densely layered prehistoric and early Christian landscapes in western Europe.