What remains is a clochan, a type of dry-stone corbelled hut associated with early medieval Irish monastic and rural settlement, though this one has been reduced to little more than a grass-covered ring roughly 7.5 metres north to south and 7.4 metres east to west, standing no higher than 0.7 metres at its tallest point. Traces of outer foundation stones are still legible at the eastern side and continuing from the south around to the northwest, enough to suggest the original circular footprint of the structure.

The clochan sits within a larger enclosure, which hints at the layered nature of the site; the building was not a solitary structure but part of some organised arrangement of space, whether monastic, agricultural, or domestic. Clochans of this kind were typically built without mortar, relying instead on the careful overlapping of flat stones to form a beehive-shaped roof, a technique that served communities in the west of Ireland for centuries. The ruined state of this example makes it difficult to say much more about its original form or function, but its protected status under the National Monuments Acts acknowledges its significance as a surviving, if fragmentary, piece of that tradition.