A clochan, the term for a dry-stone beehive hut of a type associated with early medieval Ireland, this one measures just 2.4 metres north to south and 2.6 metres east to west, rising to roughly 1.5 metres in height. Its lintelled entrance, barely 0.6 metres square, opens northward and aligns directly with the entrance to the enclosure that surrounds it, an arrangement that suggests the two elements were conceived and built together rather than accumulated over time.

What makes the site particularly legible, even through the overgrowth, is the careful logic of its outer earthworks. A low bank, standing about half a metre high, runs along the east and north sides of the enclosure at a distance of roughly 2.4 metres. Its function appears to have been twofold: to protect the entrance and to channel animals into the enclosure, indicating that this was as much a working pastoral structure as a dwelling or shelter. A second length of bank, some five metres to the north and slightly taller at around 0.7 metres, would have screened the whole complex from view when approached from the coastal strip below, effectively concealing it from anyone moving along the shoreline. That concern for concealment, combined with a nearby hut site roughly 18 metres to the northwest, suggests a small settlement that was not merely improvised but thought through, oriented to the slope, the sea approach, and the movement of livestock.

The site sits on rough grazing land on a south-facing slope, and while the structures are reported to be in good condition beneath the vegetation, the encroaching briars and bracken mean that the full outline of the enclosure and its outer banks is easier to trace in winter or early spring, when low growth makes the earthworks more visible against the hillside.