The site in question is a clochán, a type of dry-stone beehive hut built using the corbelling technique, where courses of stone are laid so that each slightly overhangs the one below, eventually closing into a roof without any mortar or timber. This particular example, known in Irish as Clochán an Phúca, meaning roughly the fairy or sprite's stone hut, sits on a narrow terrace about forty metres south-east of a related enclosure near Eochaill on Inis Mór.

The scholar John O'Donovan, writing in the nineteenth century, singled it out as the most perfect clochán on the island, a judgement that an Ordnance Survey drawing from 1840 goes some way towards explaining. That drawing shows a subrectangular structure roughly 5.5 metres long and 2.7 metres wide, with opposing doorways set into the east and west walls, an internal partition dividing the interior, and an intact corbelled roof. By 1869, a writer named Kinahan noted that the roof was still partly standing, though clearly in decline. By 1975 the structure was described as completely ruinous. The Office of Public Works subsequently cleared and tidied the remains, but the intervention has left the site in an ambiguous condition. The original east and west doorways are now blocked, and a modern porch-like entrance has been inserted through the north end-wall, a change not present in any earlier account. The present roofless remains measure approximately 5.25 metres by 2.6 metres, close in footprint to what was recorded in 1840, but stripped of everything that made the earlier building remarkable. A second clochán survives in the field immediately to the south-east, offering a point of comparison for those curious about what the wider settlement pattern here might once have looked like.