It is compact enough to seem almost incidental in the landscape, yet its construction tells a different story: every stone was placed without mortar, and the walls were corbelled, meaning each course of stone was laid slightly inward over the one below until the structure closed in on itself overhead, a technique demanding considerable skill and a precise understanding of weight and balance.

The hut measures just over four metres in diameter internally, stands nearly two metres high, and its walls run between two and two and a quarter metres thick. Those proportions matter. The thickness of the walls relative to the interior space is characteristic of corbelled drystone shelters found across the Dingle Peninsula, a tradition documented in detail by J. Cuppage in the 1986 Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey, which recorded this structure among hundreds of similar monuments in the area. The peninsula has an unusually dense concentration of such remains, partly because its relative remoteness meant later development left much undisturbed, and partly because the local stone lends itself to this kind of building. Whether the hut served as a shelter for people, for animals, or as seasonal accommodation during transhumance, the practice of moving livestock to upland grazing in summer, is not recorded here, but all three uses are well attested for structures of this type in the region.