It is a corbelled drystone hut, meaning its walls were built without mortar, with each course of stones set slightly inward over the one below until the courses meet at the top, forming a self-supporting dome or beehive shape. At four metres in diameter, just under two metres tall, and with walls nearly two metres thick, it is a compact but remarkably solid thing, its mass of stone giving it a durability that looser construction could never have managed in such an exposed position.

Structures of this type are found across the Dingle Peninsula and the broader Corca Dhuibhne region, where they appear in a range of contexts, from early Christian hermitages to seasonal shelters associated with transhumance farming. The area around Na Gleannta Theas, meaning the southern glens, is particularly remote, and the terrain described as very rough and rocky suggests this was never an easy place to reach or to live. Whether the hut served a religious purpose, a pastoral one, or something else entirely is not recorded. The site was documented as part of the Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey published in 1986, a comprehensive inventory of the peninsula's field monuments that brought many such structures to wider scholarly attention.