It is easy to mistake for a natural scatter of rock, but its proportions give it away: roughly rectangular, measuring 3.6 metres on its longer axis, with walls still standing between 1.1 and 1.5 metres high, built partly around two large boulders that were folded into the structure rather than moved aside. A short additional section of walling abuts the hut at the northwest, anchored around another boulder. The whole thing opens to the northeast, and the builders almost certainly chose this spot deliberately, for its position on the drier side of the mountain.

That detail about drainage points towards the hut's original purpose. Booley huts were temporary shelters used during booleying, the seasonal practice of moving livestock to upland pastures in summer. Herders, often young people, would spend weeks on the mountain with the animals, living in simple stone structures while the lowland fields recovered. The practice was once widespread across Ireland and left behind clusters of small huts at elevation, most of them now collapsed or overgrown. This example has survived in reasonable condition, though a second possible hut recorded about 100 metres to the east remains uncertain because of dense rhododendron growth obscuring the ground. The invasive shrub, a persistent problem across Connemara's uplands, has made proper assessment of that second structure difficult. There is also a more recent layer to the site's history: local information suggests the hut may have been put to use again during the War of Independence, when remote terrain and pre-existing shelters offered practical cover for those who needed to move or hide unseen.