This is a clochán, a type of early stone building constructed without mortar, in which courses of flat stones are laid so that each one projects slightly inward over the one below, gradually closing to form a beehive-shaped vault. The technique is ancient and was used across Atlantic Europe, but examples survive in particularly high numbers in the south-west of Ireland, where the dry Kerry air has been kinder to old stonework than the wetter midlands.

This particular structure measures roughly 3.5 metres east to west and 3.1 metres north to south, built on a square base rather than the more commonly seen circular plan. Its maximum surviving height is 1.6 metres, with the entrance lintel, just 0.75 metres high and 0.6 metres wide, facing south. To the west, where the ground rises sharply, the builders cut into the slope itself, effectively using the hillside as part of the wall. Around the east and south sides they constructed a narrow level terrace, just 0.8 metres wide, presumably to create a flat working surface immediately outside the entrance. Directly downhill, the remains of a cabin and hut site suggest this clochán was part of a wider cluster of structures, perhaps associated with seasonal farming or transhumance, the practice of moving livestock to upland pastures in summer.

The setting places it above rough grazing land, exposed rock outcrops, and thin peat with heather, looking northward across to Tralee Bay. The landscape itself has changed little in the kind of use it sees; sheep still graze the same rough ground. The low entrance, the terrace cut into the hillside, and the proximity to that cabin site make this a good example of how these structures were rarely built in isolation, but as part of a practical, if now largely vanished, way of organising life on the upland margins.