The building is a clochaun, a type of dry-stone hut constructed using a corbelling technique in which each course of stone is laid slightly inward of the one below until the walls meet at the top, forming a self-supporting dome or vault without the use of mortar. This particular example is roughly circular, measuring four metres north to south and 3.8 metres east to west on the inside, with walls still standing up to 1.8 metres high. The entrance, less than a metre wide and just over a metre long, faces south-west. Built into the wall at the north-north-west are two cupboards, one set directly above the other, a detail that suggests the interior was arranged with some deliberate domestic logic, even if the precise use of the space is now lost.

The clochaun sits at the centre of a larger enclosure, and it is what lies around it, rather than the building itself, that gives the site its quietly puzzling quality. A stone placed upright stands 2.8 metres from the entrance. Three large boulders rest near the southern bank. A small raised area of stone and earth sits just south of the entrance, pressed against the enclosure bank, and between the two entrances, one to the enclosure and one to the clochaun, there is a slightly raised spread of grass-covered stone collapse. None of these features have been satisfactorily explained. They may represent the remains of further structures, or earlier phases of activity on the site, but they resist easy interpretation. The site is recorded in the Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey compiled by J. Cuppage and published in 1986, which remains one of the more thorough regional surveys of its kind in Ireland.