A clochan, sometimes called a beehive hut, is a corbelled stone building in which each successive course of stones projects slightly inward until the walls meet at the top, forming a self-supporting dome without the need for mortar or timber. What makes this particular example quietly interesting is that it is noted as being of relatively modern construction, placing it in a different category from the ancient early medieval clochans for which the Dingle Peninsula is well known. It is, in other words, not a relic of monastic Ireland but a much later continuation of a building tradition.

Wedged into the wall of the structure, surveyors found a fragment of the upper disc of a Type B rotary quern, as classified by the archaeologist Caulfield in 1969. A rotary quern is a simple hand-operated grain-grinding device consisting of two circular stones; the upper disc rotates against the lower, crushing grain between them. The Type B classification refers to a specific form documented in Irish archaeological research. How this fragment came to be built into the wall is not recorded, whether it was reused as convenient building material or incorporated deliberately, but its presence adds a small layer of complexity to an otherwise modest structure. The site was documented in J. Cuppage's 1986 archaeological survey of the Corca Dhuibhne region, a thorough catalogue of the Dingle Peninsula's considerable material heritage.