It measures roughly 4.7 by 4 metres across and drops to about 1.5 metres deep, oval in shape, and it is what remains of a clochaun, the Irish term for a dry-stone beehive hut of the kind built without mortar, with corbelled walls that curve inward to form a domed roof. These structures are scattered across the Corca Dhuibhne peninsula in considerable numbers, many of them associated with early medieval monastic or farming life, and this one was still marked as a standing circular structure on the second edition of the Ordnance Survey map.

By the time the archaeologist R. A. S. Macalister visited in 1899, he recorded not only this clochaun but the foundation of a second one positioned in the centre of the same field. That second structure has since disappeared entirely, though Macalister's observation gives the site a slightly different character than a single isolated hut. It suggests a small cluster of buildings, perhaps a working farmstead or a modest hermitage, now reduced to an arrangement of vague circular depressions in the grass. Several such depressions remain in the general area, their outlines just legible enough to hint at what was once arranged across the field.