It is a clochan, a type of beehive-shaped dwelling built using the corbelling technique, in which each successive ring of dry-laid stone projects slightly inward over the one below until the walls meet and close. This particular example is complete, its roof sealed at the top by three flat slabs, which is not as common a survival as one might hope.

The structure is modest in its dimensions but precise in its construction. The walls are roughly 0.9 metres thick, the internal diameter measures 3.3 metres, and the hut stands 2.6 metres high. The entrance is lintelled, meaning a single horizontal stone spans the top of the doorway, and it is 1.4 metres high by 0.8 metres wide, low enough to make you duck but not so low as to suggest it was built for a smaller people. Clochans of this kind are closely associated with early Christian monastic activity in the west of Ireland, particularly in Kerry, where communities of monks sought remote and austere settings for contemplative life. The Dingle Peninsula has a notable concentration of them. This example was recorded and described by J. Cuppage in the 1986 archaeological survey of the Corca Dhuibhne region, a foundational study of the extraordinary density of prehistoric and early medieval monuments across this part of the country.